{"id":266,"date":"2006-01-24T07:01:35","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T12:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=266"},"modified":"2006-01-24T07:01:35","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T12:01:35","slug":"the-white-isnt-just-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/01\/24\/the-white-isnt-just-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"The white isn&#8217;t just snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backpacking.net\/forums\/showthreaded.php?Cat=&#038;Number=93167&#038;page=0&#038;view=collapsed&#038;sb=5&#038;o=&#038;fpart=1\">A thread at the Backpacking.net forums <\/a> wonders why so many backpackers tend to be predominantly white folks (and predominantly white guys, at that).<\/p>\n<p>GoBlog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getoutdoors.com\/goblog\/index.php?\/archives\/246-Yet-Another-White-Christmas-Minorities-in-The-Outdoors.html\">brought this up a few weeks back<\/a> in a post skewering the lily-whiteness of Outside magazine and its Patagonia-clad readers.<\/p>\n<p><P>I don&#8217;t see minority groups being excluded from the backcountry, and I don&#8217;t see how their cultural preferences against camping out in the woods are hurting them socially or economically, so I&#8217;m not investing a anxiety over the issue of diversity on the trails. Would it be better if more people of varying ethnicities appreciated a vigorous walk in the country? Sure, if they pick up after themselves.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nI just thought of a great Far Side cartoon: Picture two bears in a campsite, with an overline that says &#8220;Diversity in the deep woods.&#8221;  One bear is saying to the other:  &#8220;You know,  people really <em>are<\/em> all the same on the inside.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thread at the Backpacking.net forums wonders why so many backpackers tend to be predominantly white folks (and predominantly white guys, at that). GoBlog brought this up a few weeks back in a post skewering the lily-whiteness of Outside magazine&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/01\/24\/the-white-isnt-just-snow\/\">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":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}