{"id":1538,"date":"2007-10-23T07:56:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T12:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2007-10-23T07:56:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T12:56:28","slug":"hunting-and-hiking-in-the-warner-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/10\/23\/hunting-and-hiking-in-the-warner-wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting and hiking in the Warner Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicoer.com\/ci_7239297\">The editor of the Chico Enterprise recounts eight days in the South Warner Wilderness  of Modoc County, way up  in far northern California: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>\nI got to sit at the base of a frozen 300-foot waterfall and listen to it break apart, like a calving glacier, as the sun hit it in the morning.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nI got to take the coldest bath of my life, in a little stream that was frozen solid the day before.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nI got to sit mesmerized by the aspens in their fall colors. They seemed to become more golden every time I looked. The combination of sagebrush, conifers, aspens and colorful rocks of green, red, orange, gray and light blue left me assured that Mother Nature is an artist.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nI got to hike to places where I&#8217;d feel like I was the first person to have ever set foot there. On one ridge, gazing out over a beautiful meadow, I looked down at my feet and saw shiny pieces of flint and obsidian like something in a museum. Hundreds of years ago, Modoc Indians used to sit right there making arrowheads and watching the deer herds.<br \/>\n<\/blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p>Notably, they were out there for eight days hunting mule deer and didn&#8217;t see any. I often wish the deer around the Bay Area were so wary of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editor of the Chico Enterprise recounts eight days in the South Warner Wilderness of Modoc County, way up in far northern California: I got to sit at the base of a frozen 300-foot waterfall and listen to it break&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/10\/23\/hunting-and-hiking-in-the-warner-wilderness\/\">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":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"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=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}