{"id":1900,"date":"2025-11-24T23:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2025-11-24T23:22:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:22:42","slug":"w6-sc-323-merriam-mountains-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/2025\/11\/24\/w6-sc-323-merriam-mountains-hp\/","title":{"rendered":"W6\/SC-323 Merriam Mountains (HP)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>The initial approach fix is across from Lawrence Welk resort, is paved and there is a large glass filled parking area.&nbsp; <br><br>This is a deceiving route on the map.&nbsp; The map shows a road to the top but in some places, I&#8217;m not sure what could crawl up.&nbsp; There is a lot of very steep uphill pitches and then you loose all that elevation gain so you can do it again.&nbsp; According to my watch, the elevation rain for the round trip is ~1,200 feet so that is what I am going to record for this one.&nbsp; There is a lot of up and down on this one.<br><br>In the end, navigation is fairly strait forward.&nbsp; Excelent VHF into San Diego.&nbsp; If I can find my pictures, I&#8217;ll post them here.&nbsp; Route is attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tripreports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}