{"id":1736,"date":"2008-02-08T08:53:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T16:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/08\/panting-over-hiking-pants\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T08:53:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T16:53:58","slug":"panting-over-hiking-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/08\/panting-over-hiking-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"Panting over hiking pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2250942908\/\" title=\"columbia hiking pants by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2210\/2250942908_1efff54073_m.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"131\" height=\"240\" alt=\"columbia hiking pants\" \/><\/a> Acquiring gear seems forever fraught with the potential for buyer&#8217;s remorse, but one purchase I made a couple years back continues to satisfy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountry.com\/store\/COL0982\/Columbia-Omni-Dry-Challenger-Convertible-Pant-Mens.html?CMP_ID=SH_FRO001&#038;CMP_SKU=COL0982&#038;mv_pc=r126\">Columbia&#8217;s entry-level nylon hiking  pants<\/a>. I&#8217;ve logged what must be over a thousand miles in these guys &#8212; they have no bells or whistles (no belts or mesh undies, which just annoy me), they&#8217;ve got tons of pockets, they wash clean no matter how much cow crap I stumble through. <\/p>\n<p>They just do their job, in other words (though I admit I almost never zip the leg bottoms off.)  Melissa keeps wondering when they&#8217;ll wear out. So do I. But they keep hanging in there. <\/p>\n<p>Goes to show you don&#8217;t have to buy Patagonia or Ex Officio&#8217;s top-of-the-line model to get durable, quality stuff. <\/p>\n<p>Have to admit, though, that I&#8217;ve seen other pants that seem promising. If you like yours, please share with the rest of us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acquiring gear seems forever fraught with the potential for buyer&#8217;s remorse, but one purchase I made a couple years back continues to satisfy: Columbia&#8217;s entry-level nylon hiking pants. I&#8217;ve logged what must be over a thousand miles in these guys&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/08\/panting-over-hiking-pants\/\">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":[34],"tags":[501,219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736"}],"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=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}