{"id":1932,"date":"2008-05-19T05:50:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T13:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2008-05-19T05:50:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T13:50:40","slug":"summer-hiking-suggestions-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/05\/19\/summer-hiking-suggestions-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer hiking suggestions needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Wilder Ranch column will appear (if there are no publishing glitches) in the Mercury News on  June 5, and the one after that will be June 15 &#8212; at which time I&#8217;ll be obligated to start writing about places where hiking in the heat is less of an issue. Usually that means coastline and redwoods. <\/p>\n<p>What I need: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Must be a park<\/strong> (rather than, say, a regional trail) because, for now at least, the columns are written as reviews of individual parks. <\/li>\n<li> Must have enough trail choices to have &#8220;<strong>easy, moderate and hard<\/strong>&#8221; hike suggestions.<\/li>\n<li> Must be <strong>reasonable driving distance from San Jose<\/strong> (less than an hour, basically &#8212; I know this rules out a lot of the North and East Bay but I&#8217;ve gotta think about who signs the checks). <\/li>\n<li>Can&#8217;t be a place I&#8217;ve <strong>already reviewed<\/strong>. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>These are the places I covered last summer: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1653\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/angel-island-state-park\/\" title=\"Angel Island State Park\">Angel Island State Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1654\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/big-basin-state-park\/\" title=\"Big Basin Redwoods State Park\">Big Basin Redwoods State Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1650\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/butano-state-park\/\" title=\"Butano State Park\">Butano State Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1656\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/castle-rock-state-park\/\" title=\"Castle Rock State Park\">Castle Rock State Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1651\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/portola-redwoods-state-park\/\" title=\"Portola Redwoods State Park\">Portola Redwoods State Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1655\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/purisima-creek-redwoods-open-space-preserve\/\" title=\"Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve\">Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1652\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/sanborn-skyline-county-park\/\" title=\"Sanborn-Skyline County Park\">Sanborn-Skyline County Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1645\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wunderlich-county-park\/\" title=\"Wunderlich County Park\">Wunderlich County Park<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, let me have &#8217;em. This&#8217;ll be a challenge because I&#8217;ve covered all my favorite parks in the past year. But there&#8217;s always time to find new ones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Wilder Ranch column will appear (if there are no publishing glitches) in the Mercury News on June 5, and the one after that will be June 15 &#8212; at which time I&#8217;ll be obligated to start writing about places&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/05\/19\/summer-hiking-suggestions-needed\/\">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":[97,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932"}],"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=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}