{"id":1496,"date":"2007-10-04T07:25:56","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T12:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2007-12-03T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T21:37:27","slug":"its-bumpass-hell-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/10\/04\/its-bumpass-hell-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Bumpass Hell out there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.latimes.com\/articles\/la-tr-bumpass7oct07\">An L.A. Times article raves over the odorous wonders of Bumpass Hell in Lassen Volcanic National Park. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>Here&#8217;s how the story goes: In 1865, a pioneer named Kendall Vanhook Bumpass, who had discovered the site the year before, guided a newspaper editor interested in covering it. While showing off his discovery, Bumpass stepped on what looked to be ground but was really only a thin crust covering boiling liquid. The crust broke, his leg plunged through into the scalding muck, and his injuries were so severe his limb had to be amputated.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, he reportedly said, &#8220;The descent to hell is easy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the hike is easy &#8212; easy enough for families with young ones; I saw several as I traversed the three-mile round trip. The 1 1\/2 miles slope down only 300 feet,although the thin air at this elevation (8,000 feet) can make the hike seem more difficult. The sulfureous vapor emanating from below probably doesn&#8217;t help your oxygen intake either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My Lassen visit is recorded <a href=\"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/archives\/2005_09.html#002434\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An L.A. Times article raves over the odorous wonders of Bumpass Hell in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Here&#8217;s how the story goes: In 1865, a pioneer named Kendall Vanhook Bumpass, who had discovered the site the year before, guided a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/10\/04\/its-bumpass-hell-out-there\/\">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":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496"}],"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=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}