{"id":1062,"date":"2015-08-14T06:12:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T10:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:52:05","slug":"southern-presies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/southern-presies\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Presies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This hike was all about introducing&nbsp;my nephew, Jason, to the beauty of the White Mountains. &nbsp;He&#8217;d done plenty of hiking and outdoors activity, being an Eagle Scout and having done some of the Boy Scout High Adventure programs (and received the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holry.org\/TripleCrownAward\/\">High Adventure Triple Crown<\/a> award). &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;With some summer time available, we hatched the idea of an overnight in one of the AMC mountain huts, and with that, we settled on doing the Southern Presidentials: Eisenhower, Pierce, and Jackson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mitzpah-jason-and-us-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mitzpah-jason-and-us-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mitzpah-jason-and-us-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mitzpah-jason-and-us-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mitzpah-jason-and-us-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mitzpah-jason-and-us-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A top Pierce with Eisenhower in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0146-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0146-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0146-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0146-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0146-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0146-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">chillin&#8217; on the Mizpah &#8220;patio&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0115-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0115-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0115-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0115-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0115-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0115-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hike was all about introducing&nbsp;my nephew, Jason, to the beauty of the White Mountains. &nbsp;He&#8217;d done plenty of hiking and outdoors activity, being an Eagle Scout and having done some of the Boy Scout High Adventure programs (and received the High Adventure Triple Crown award). &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;With some summer time available, we hatched the idea of an overnight in one of the AMC mountain huts, and with that, we settled on doing the Southern Presidentials: Eisenhower, Pierce, and<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/southern-presies\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"category-hiking.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4773,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/4773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}