{"id":913,"date":"2017-06-20T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/?p=913"},"modified":"2019-03-15T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:43:45","slug":"bishop-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"r\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-914\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160123_161906.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160123_161906.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160123_161906-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160123_161906-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"r\">Bishop Peak is the quintessential SLO hike. It&#8217;s the highest of the morros at 1,559 feet, and the trail is 3.7 miles out and back. A quick jaunt! There&#8217;s a less official steep back way up too&#8211;for some extra ooomph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"r\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-915 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160123_154351-e1497992834305-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160123_154351-e1497992834305.jpg 768w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160123_154351-e1497992834305-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"r\">At the very top are great big boulders to scramble up for the best views. It can be windy!<\/p>\n<p class=\"r\">John Muir had this to say on the subject:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"r\"><i>The trail brings the traveler suddenly in sight of <\/i><i>Bishop Peak&#8230; <\/i><i>The town is fairly encircled with beautiful hills&#8230;<\/i><i>the one just named being most conspicuous.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"r\">Wow, what a review! Haha. A nice claim to fame nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"r\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-916\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160123_160334.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160123_160334.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160123_160334-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20160123_160334-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"r\">It surely is nice and green in these photos &#8211; definitely a winter thing! This is in January 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Peak is the quintessential SLO hike. It&#8217;s the highest of the morros at 1,559 feet, and the trail is 3.7 miles out and back. A quick jaunt! There&#8217;s a less official steep back way up too&#8211;for some extra ooomph. At the very top are great big boulders to scramble up for the best views. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}