{"id":2363,"date":"2016-07-31T19:53:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2016-07-31T19:53:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T02:53:08","slug":"paul-gerards-10-great-conditioning-hikes-near-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2363","title":{"rendered":"Paul Gerard&#8217;s 10 great conditioning hikes near Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lfSvZzobaT\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgerald.com\/portland-hikes\/10-conditioning-hikes-near-portland\/\">Hike Yourself Into Shape: 10 Conditioning Hikes Near Portland<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Hike Yourself Into Shape: 10 Conditioning Hikes Near Portland&#8221; &#8212; Author Paul Gerald\" src=\"https:\/\/paulgerald.com\/portland-hikes\/10-conditioning-hikes-near-portland\/embed\/#?secret=1ljXNZcFvp#?secret=lfSvZzobaT\" data-secret=\"lfSvZzobaT\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Paul Gerald makes a great list of hikes designed to get you back in shape. I agree with this list whole-heartedly, but they do ramp up in difficulty very quickly. You might want to do some of these hikes (or find one of similar distance\/elevation gain) more than once before moving up to the next level of difficulty. Also, hikes like the Elk-King traverse and Table mountain can be technically difficult and have exposure\/very real falling dangers. So, definitely do your homework before going.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the abbreviated list:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Angel&#8217;s Rest &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Distance:<\/strong> 4.6 miles.\u00a0<strong>Elevation Gain:<\/strong> 1,600\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Hamilton Mountain &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Distance: <\/strong>7.6 miles.\u00a0<strong>Elevation Gain: <\/strong>2,100\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Devil&#8217;s Rest via Wahkeena &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Distance: <\/strong>7.4 miles.\u00a0<strong>Elevation Gain: <\/strong>2,400\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Nick Eaton Way &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Distance: <\/strong>8 miles\u00a0<strong>Elevation Gain: <\/strong>2,600\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Dog Mountain &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Distance: <\/strong>7.2 miles.\u00a0<strong>Elevation Gain: <\/strong>2,900\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Trapper Creek Loop &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Distance: <\/strong>13.3 miles.\u00a0<strong>Elevation Gain: <\/strong>3,200\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Table Mountain &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Distance: <\/strong>10 miles.\u00a0<strong>Elevation Gain: <\/strong>3,650\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Elk-King Traverse &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Distance: <\/strong>11 miles.\u00a0<strong>Elevation Gain: <\/strong>4,600\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Tanner Butte &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Distance: <\/strong>18 miles.\u00a0<strong>Elevation Gain: <\/strong>4,450\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Mount Defiance &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Distance: <\/strong>11.9 miles.\u00a0<strong>Elevation Gain: <\/strong>4,800\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hike Yourself Into Shape: 10 Conditioning Hikes Near Portland Paul Gerald makes a great list of hikes designed to get you back in shape. I agree with this list whole-heartedly, but they do ramp up in difficulty very quickly. You might want to do some of these hikes (or find one of similar distance\/elevation gain) more than once before moving up to the next level of difficulty. Also, hikes like the Elk-King traverse and Table mountain can be technically difficult&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2363\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbinghiking","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-C7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}