{"id":1520,"date":"2007-10-13T12:14:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T17:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2011-11-13T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T16:37:51","slug":"mangans-10-essentials-for-happy-hiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/10\/13\/mangans-10-essentials-for-happy-hiking\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangan&#8217;s 10 Essentials for Happy Hiking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve assembled my version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/archives\/cat_10_essentials_for_happy_hiking.html\">10 things I need for a happy hike in the Bay Area,<\/a> where the notable absence of such climate annoyances as blizzards and hurricanes means we don&#8217;t have to dwell on the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/getaways\/216076_essentials17.html\">10 Essentials for Wilderness Survival <\/a>unless we really, really screw up.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a stay-on-the-main-trail sorta guy, mainly because I think trails through the woods are damage enough, but also because it keeps me out of the poison oak.  I hike in parks where maps are available to keep me out of trouble.  I should spend more time in the High Sierra, where the scenery is so much prettier and the trails are more challenging, but I cringe at the idea of  burning two tanks of gas to get closer to nature.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there are so many places to hike here that it seems silly to gallivanting off to the mountains when I haven&#8217;t seen half the trails within an hour&#8217;s drive of the ol&#8217; crib.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/category\/hiking\/10-essentials-for-happy-hiking\/\">Here&#8217;s a link to the category page of all 10<\/a>, in case you want to bookmark it for posterity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve assembled my version of the 10 things I need for a happy hike in the Bay Area, where the notable absence of such climate annoyances as blizzards and hurricanes means we don&#8217;t have to dwell on the 10 Essentials&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/10\/13\/mangans-10-essentials-for-happy-hiking\/\">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":[106],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520"}],"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=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6941,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions\/6941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}