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5. Clouds Rest at Yosemite National Park: Yosemite's Half Dome may be the most famous high-elevation hike in Yosemite (and is also highly monitored with permits) but nearby Clouds Rest has arguably the better views.

Ask the doctor: High-elevation hiking with heart attack history?

"Hikers should be ready to consider low-elevation hikes as an alternative," Barb Maynes, a park spokeswoman, wrote in an e-mail message.

ON a recent trip to Boulder, Colo., a friend and I were encouraged by a fresh snowfall to get up into the higher elevations and hike.

When he was in graduate school, he would often leave Berkeley after work, drive to a 10,000-foot-elevation trailhead, hike 16 miles to a research site carrying 80 pounds of equipment and set up camp before calling it a day.

The next day they headed north to the Sacred Valley of the Incas, elevation 9,500 feet, hiking several hours to the ruins of Pisac and, after lunch, to Ollantaytambo, the site of a fortress where the Inca had fought some of their fiercest battles.

The John Muir Trail, CA Distance: 211 miles thru hike | Elevation gain: 46,700 ft | Learn more.

Photo: Jessica Dales. 5. Roan Highlands, NC Distance: 14 miles thru hike | Elevation gain: 2,800 ft | Learn more.

There may be some elevation gain, and some hiking in exposed conditions without shade.

The tour, which heads into Italy on Day 2, lists 8 to 15 miles a day of hiking with elevation gains of 2,000 to 3,500 feet a day.

But on Wednesday, as Sarah Palin was reportedly hiking Mount McKinley (elevation: 20,320 feet), Levi Johnston, 20, and Bristol Palin, 19, took to the cover of Us Weekly with their toddler son and a giddy announcement: "We're Getting Married!" The headline was clearly intended to shock the celebrity-gossip and political worlds, whose inhabitants wondered what it all meant.