{"id":2141,"date":"2008-11-28T11:12:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T19:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2009-05-20T10:44:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T18:44:43","slug":"hiking-gear-gift-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/11\/28\/hiking-gear-gift-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking gear gift ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Black Friday, here&#8217;s a bunch of cool hiking gear I&#8217;d give myself for Christmas if I had someplace to put it. I went searching among my favorite boutique gear retailers because I know the stuff is built in somebody&#8217;s garage, far from the reaches of OSHA regulations and other bureaucratic annoyances. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brokenboneart.com\/walkinghikingsticks\">Hiking sticks<\/a> from Broken Bone Art.   I&#8217;m especially fond of the one which looks as if Osama bin Laden might have modeled for the carving. $70-$85.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirtygirlgaiters.com\/\">Dirty Girl Gaiters.<\/a> Sassy, jazzy way to keep crud out of your footwear. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirtygirlgaiters.com\/empire2.html\">More patterns<\/a> than you can shake a Montrail at. $13.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freezerbagcooking.com\/bookstore.htm#117955195\">Freezerbag Cooking Volume 1.<\/a> &#8220;Approximately 160+ recipes, 95% of which are all new and found no where else,&#8221; Sarah Kirkconnell says. $13.95.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainlaureldesigns.com\/shop\/product_info.php?products_id=51&#038;osCsid=8b34e17744061530da905bddb57ce5ab\">Mountain Laurel Design eVent Rain Mitts.<\/a> Just 25 to 27 grams. Preferred choice of mega-hikers Andrew Skurka and Francis Tapon, the site says. $35.  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixmoondesigns.com\/shop\/Shopexd.asp?id=36\">Six Moon Designs Lunar Solo. <\/a> Some day I&#8217;ll give all my other tents and tarps to charity and buy this one: room for one person, with bug netting, a mere 23 ounces, sets up with a hiking pole. $235.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomharrisonmaps.com\/\">Any Tom Harrison Map. <\/a>Tom lives in Marin and has walked every mile of his maps, which are the class of the industry. New for 2008: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1877689998?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=twhedrabaarhi-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1877689998\">Pinnacles National Monument <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=twhedrabaarhi-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1877689998\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>. Bay Area maps start at $4.95; others, $8.95 to $18.95 for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1877689343?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=twhedrabaarhi-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1877689343\">John Muir Trail Map-Pack: Shaded Relief Topo Maps<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=twhedrabaarhi-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1877689343\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> pack. Tons more of his work at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/best-bay-area-trail-maps\/\">my list of the best Bay Area maps<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/traildesigns.com\/products01.html\">TrailDesigns Caldera Cone Stove<\/a>. Ultra-efficient, super-lightweight alcohol-stove system designed by Silicon Valley engineers. $30-$40.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ula-equipment.com\/helix.htm\">ULA Equipment Helix Potty Trowel.<\/a>  You know how Outside flogs those $900 shoes you&#8217;d never buy? This kinda like that: the otherwise sane ULA, maker of rave-reviewed hand-built backpacks, crafts this ice-ax-looking thing marketed as a cat-hole digger (mostly to hush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tetongravity.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=55913\">nit-picking mountaineers<\/a>). Weighs only 4.5 to 5.4 ounces. $130-$150.  <\/li>\n<p>Feel free to add whatever gear&#8217;s giving you the tingles this year. <\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Black Friday, here&#8217;s a bunch of cool hiking gear I&#8217;d give myself for Christmas if I had someplace to put it. I went searching among my favorite boutique gear retailers because I know the stuff is built&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/11\/28\/hiking-gear-gift-ideas\/\">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":[328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141"}],"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=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}