{"id":20,"date":"2005-02-07T10:41:06","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T15:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-04-19T09:29:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T17:29:55","slug":"where-i-get-this-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/02\/07\/where-i-get-this-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I get this stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/archives\/cat_hiking_gear_list.html\">listed my gear<\/a>, I may as well tell where I found it. Just about everything worth having is available online, but it helps to see stuff in the store.  Anything requiring an exact fit &#8212; shoes and packs in particular &#8212; should be tried on first.  These are places I&#8217;ve tried:  <\/p>\n<ul>  <P><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rei.com\">REI:<\/a> Recreational Equipment Inc. is a co-op rather than a typical company. It provides dividends to members once a year to pay back some the cost of its gear, which is never cheap but almost always worth having because it&#8217;s built better.  The Bay Area has a couple huge REI stores to check out gear before buying, but if you go online you can get free shipping if you pick up your order at a store.  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melcottons.com\/\">Mel Cotton&#8217;s Sporting Goods:<\/a>  San Jose&#8217;s most venerable outdoor store &#8230; has a great shoe department and gobs of hunting and fishing gear, and the staffers really know their stuff. Also rents canoes and kayaks. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonomaoutfitters.com\">Sonoma Outfitters:<\/a> A major source of sporting goods about 100 miles up the road in Santa Rosa.   Good place to try on a Dana Design backpack.  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.campmor.com\/\">Campmor:  <\/a>   Just about everything is available at Campmor, often at lower prices.    <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernmountain.com\/\">Northern Mountain Supply:<\/a> It&#8217;s based way up the California coast in Eureka, but it&#8217;s close enough to the Bay Area that cheap ground shipping takes only a couple days.  Look for the Killer Deals.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mgear.com\/\">Mountain Gear: <\/a> Nice selection and customer service, and free ground shipping on orders of $49 and up. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/backcountrygear.com\/\">Backcountry Gear:<\/a> A no-frills site;  high quality gear, dependable service.  Lots of specialized climbing gear, if you&#8217;re into risking life and limb.  Short on little amenities like order tracking, but the stuff I&#8217;ve ordered arrived within a few days.   <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon:<\/a>  Usually provides links to dealers like Northern Mountain; good way to track down hard-to-find stuff. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve listed my gear, I may as well tell where I found it. Just about everything worth having is available online, but it helps to see stuff in the store. Anything requiring an exact fit &#8212; shoes and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/02\/07\/where-i-get-this-stuff\/\">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":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"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=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}