{"id":3054,"date":"2026-06-07T00:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2026-06-11T02:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:39:32","slug":"inca-trail-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/inca-trail-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Inca Trail 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This year’s grand adventure is to fulfill one of my wife’s dreams since she was a child. When she was little, she was given a picture book about Machu Picchu in Peru. As she knows me well, she proposed that we backpack the Inca Trail to get there. It is a short hike in distance, but a rigorous hike with altitudes from 11,000 to 14,000 feet as we maneuver the ancient carved stairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will be her first backpacking adventure where she will be sleeping in a tent and skipping showers, so that will be fun! She’ll hike with me anywhere as long as there is a shower and a comfortable bed at the end of the day. So, we will see how this goes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiking the Inca Trail and visiting Machu Picchu requires permits, so this is a fully supported hike. We selected Alpaca Expeditions<\/a> to handle all the details. As a fully supported hike, we have a guide, a porter and cooks. The porter will carry 7 kg of gear for us. He or she will carry our tent, sleeping bag, extra air mattress which is 3.5 kg. So, we can have them carry 3.5 kg (7 pounds) of personal gear. Our packs are limited to 25 liters in capacity, so we needed to buy gear specific for the hike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the next couple of weeks, I’ll break down the kit I am taking as well as my wife’s. I will also post how we are training for altitude when we lowlanders live at just 600 feet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year’s grand adventure is to fulfill one of my wife’s dreams since she was a child. When she was little, she was given a picture book about Machu Picchu in Peru. As she knows me well, she proposed that we backpack the Inca Trail to get there. It is a short hike in distance, … Continue reading Inca Trail 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inca2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}