{"id":275,"date":"2006-01-29T18:08:24","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T23:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=275"},"modified":"2006-01-29T18:08:24","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T23:08:24","slug":"gearing-up-for-snow-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/01\/29\/gearing-up-for-snow-camping\/","title":{"rendered":"Gearing up for snow camping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No new pictures this weekend, I&#8217;m sorry to report. But I&#8217;ll have some doozies next weekend, when I make my first stab at  snowshoeing and winter backpacking.<\/p>\n<p><P>I&#8217;ve had the itch to try snowshoeing because it&#8217;s so much like hiking.  It&#8217;s taken me all this time to overcome my primary objection, which is the fact that it must be done in snow. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with snow, I just like it better floating around in those little &#8220;Rosebud&#8221; globes.<br \/>\n<P>i wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/archives\/2006_01.html#002688\">few things<\/a> about snowcamping at Two-Heel Drive last week, and lo and behold, a guy who&#8217;s been doing it all his life (one of my 17 devoted readers) has volunteered to take me along on an overnighter at Carson Pass near Lake Tahoe.  He&#8217;s gonna show me  how to build a snow cave and everything.<br \/>\n<P><strong>The pluses of snow camping: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No bugs<\/li>\n<li>No bears<\/li>\n<li>Very few people<\/li>\n<li>Gorgeous flake-flocked vistas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The minuses:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cold as a well-diggers ass<\/li>\n<li>Cold as a witch&#8217;s tit<\/li>\n<li>Cold as a stone<\/li>\n<li>Cold as the grave<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did I mention my issues with cold?<br \/>\n<P>Melissa&#8217;s brother asked if perhaps I couldn&#8217;t get the same effect by sticking my head in the freezer.  Sure, but nobody wants to see my pictures of frozen peas.<\/p>\n<p><P>Oh, I forgot one of the pluses: The need to acquire  more gear:  thermal underwear,  goose-down  jacket, zero-degree goose-down sleeping bag, waterproof cover for the sleeping bag, waterproof snow pants, waterproof snow mittens.<br \/>\n<P>All you have to do to have an enjoyable snow-camping outing is to stay dry.  The challenge being that any human encounter with snow causes it to melt, and any exertion through snow causes people to sweat. It&#8217;s as if all the forces of nature are conspiring to convince you that the best place to be in the winter is indoors in front of a warm fire.<br \/>\n<P>But that is not the hearty pioneer spirit that built America.   Snow-camping is a patriotic duty, right up there with sitting on juries and forgetting the verses of the &#8220;Star Spangled Banner&#8221; they never sing at football games.<br \/>\n<P>And if it proves too arduous, I can always stand in front of my open freezer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No new pictures this weekend, I&#8217;m sorry to report. But I&#8217;ll have some doozies next weekend, when I make my first stab at snowshoeing and winter backpacking. I&#8217;ve had the itch to try snowshoeing because it&#8217;s so much like hiking.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/01\/29\/gearing-up-for-snow-camping\/\">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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}