{"id":3328,"date":"2023-06-27T09:28:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T13:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2025-08-07T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:02:49","slug":"pico-and-mendon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/pico-and-mendon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pico and Mendon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was one of those hiking adventures where, had we known we would explore alternate <a href=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/northeast-peakbagging\/#nh48\">peakbagger lists<\/a>, we might have done these peaks all on the same trip &#8211; but then, that&#8217;s part of the fun of having peakbagger lists &#8211; we get to revisit areas around New England!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pico and Mendon lie close to the more familiar Killington summit &#8211; in fact our hike to Mendon summit started at the same trailhead as when we <a href=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/mts-abraham-and-killington-vt\/\">hiked Killington<\/a> a few years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_7128.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3334\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_7131.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3335\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_7132.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3336\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_7133.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3337\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_7135.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3338\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one of those hiking adventures where, had we known we would explore alternate peakbagger lists, we might have done these peaks all on the same trip &#8211; but then, that&#8217;s part of the fun of having peakbagger lists &#8211; we get to revisit areas around New England! Pico and Mendon lie close to the more familiar Killington summit &#8211; in fact our hike to Mendon summit started at the same trailhead as when we hiked Killington a few<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/pico-and-mendon\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"category-hiking.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","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=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}