{"id":1671,"date":"2007-12-20T09:17:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T17:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/12\/20\/latest-hikes-column-mission-peak\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T17:17:30","slug":"latest-hikes-column-mission-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/12\/20\/latest-hikes-column-mission-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Hikes column: Mission Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/tommangan\/ci_7767439\">Posted today at www.mercurynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"mn_Global\">  A few hours at Mission Peak Regional Preserve might make you wonder if the United Nations has a West Coast hiking club.<\/p>\n<p>Fremont&#8217;s signature peak attracts people from everywhere. I&#8217;ve chatted with hikers from India, China, Taiwan, Russia, Mexico and even remote, exotic places like Livermore.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t come to Mission Peak expecting solitude: the parking lot&#8217;s like a shopping mall on weekends. You come to meet interesting people and to stand on the summit. There&#8217;s no easy (or even moderate) route to the top &#8211; it&#8217;s nearly 2,200 feet above the trail head &#8211; but the view up there is worth every step.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Winter&#8217;s the best time to do Mission Peak because a layer of gravel keeps the main trail from turning to muck after it rains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted today at www.mercurynews.com A few hours at Mission Peak Regional Preserve might make you wonder if the United Nations has a West Coast hiking club. Fremont&#8217;s signature peak attracts people from everywhere. I&#8217;ve chatted with hikers from India, China,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/12\/20\/latest-hikes-column-mission-peak\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[3],"tags":[489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}