{"id":1363,"date":"2007-07-03T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T14:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2007-07-03T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T14:05:48","slug":"off-topic-an-alaska-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/07\/03\/off-topic-an-alaska-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Off topic: An Alaska adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, so, my vow of chastity to write only about Nor-Cal stuff has lasted about 47 minutes at last count.  It&#8217;s all because an Oregon-based writer\/climber\/podcaster named Fitz Cahall sent me a link to his latest &#8216;cast, <a href=\"http:\/\/thedirtbag.libsyn.com\/index.php?post_id=230162\">which describes one guy&#8217;s experience <\/a>backpacking deep in the wilds of Alaska after he splits off from his  group because he has to get back to civilization to attend his sister&#8217;s wedding. One of those decisions any of us would make in the same situation, such an obvious call that it almost seems mundane. What happened next was anything but:  first he bumped into a family of grizzlies, then he fell into a crevasse (a short one), then he fell into a river of raging snowmelt, then he stumbled half frozen into a hunting camp where he needed to catch a flight out.<br \/>\n<P>Great stuff, or at least good enough to grant myself an exception.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/thedirtbag\/no_big_deal_streaming.mov\">Here&#8217;s a link to the podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, so, my vow of chastity to write only about Nor-Cal stuff has lasted about 47 minutes at last count. It&#8217;s all because an Oregon-based writer\/climber\/podcaster named Fitz Cahall sent me a link to his latest &#8216;cast, which describes one&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/07\/03\/off-topic-an-alaska-adventure\/\">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":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363"}],"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=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}