{"id":1285,"date":"2007-06-13T08:53:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T13:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2007-06-13T08:53:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T13:53:28","slug":"scary-west-coast-trail-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/06\/13\/scary-west-coast-trail-ordeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary West Coast Trail ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/ottawacitizen\/news\/story.html?id=c6016871-c3f8-4197-991e-d2f73e22c03f&#038;k=8499\">Ottawa Citizen.com <\/a> reports on hikers who got trapped in sea water and driftwood along the West Coast Trail.  They were crossing a surge channel when a rogue wave came blasting through.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>\nSeconds later they were thrashing around in the churning water, buffeted by huge pieces of driftwood.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe wave was tossing around huge tree trunks and snapping them as if they were matchsticks, said Tim Kniffin, 28, of Chicago, also a theology student, and the Petersons&#8217; cousin.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nKelsey Peterson was wedged between two logs and Kniffin feared she would be crushed.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;I just thought this could be it and I was amazed that life had been so short,&#8221; he said.<\/blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p>As luck would have it, one of their group managed to find his way back to a trail and go for help.  The rest had to be winched out by rescue helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa Citizen.com reports on hikers who got trapped in sea water and driftwood along the West Coast Trail. They were crossing a surge channel when a rogue wave came blasting through. Seconds later they were thrashing around in the churning&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/06\/13\/scary-west-coast-trail-ordeal\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}