{"id":1708,"date":"2008-01-28T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/01\/28\/first-time-i-climbed-mission-peak\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:43:03","slug":"first-time-i-climbed-mission-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/01\/28\/first-time-i-climbed-mission-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"First time I climbed Mission Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who haven&#8217;t been reading along since the summer of 2004, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2004\/07\/25\/on-a-mission\/\">here&#8217;s a look back at the day I figured out I could be a hiker. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About three-quarters of the way up, I&#8217;m starting to tire out. I walk five minutes and my heart is beating like mad, so I have to stop and let it calm back down. My calve muscles have gotten used to the strain but the rest of my body is telling me: stop this nonsense now, dammit. <\/p>\n<p>But I round a bend at the top of a ridge and the sight gives me fresh inspiration: it&#8217;s a view of the back side of Mission Peak that I would never have seen if I hadn&#8217;t made the climb. Makes me realize why people get hooked on hiking. The view is different up here. <\/p>\n<p>I turn to my right and the summit is in clear view, maybe a quarter-mile away. &#8220;You&#8217;re almost there,&#8221; says a beefy guy who passes me on the way up. Must be my heartbeat is audible to pedestrians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m probably been up there dozens of times since then. It&#8217;s like that old greasy spoon you always go back to even when you know there&#8217;s 25 better places to eat along the way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who haven&#8217;t been reading along since the summer of 2004, here&#8217;s a look back at the day I figured out I could be a hiker. About three-quarters of the way up, I&#8217;m starting to tire out. I walk&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/01\/28\/first-time-i-climbed-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\/1708"}],"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=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}