{"id":522,"date":"2006-06-16T07:37:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T12:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=522"},"modified":"2006-06-16T07:37:36","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T12:37:36","slug":"re-camping-backpacking-on-the-wane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/16\/re-camping-backpacking-on-the-wane\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Camping &#038; backpacking on the wane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shns.com\/shns\/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&#038;pk=EDCAMPING-06-13-06\"> From a Sacramento Bee editorial: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Overnight camping stays in the national parks have dropped more than 20 percent over the past decade. The outdoor industry finds long-distance backpacking is off by 25 percent since 1998.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIt might be tempting to write this off to an increasingly sedentary culture, but that doesn&#8217;t mesh with increased interest in snowshoeing, canoeing and kayaking, telemark skiing and trail running.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nSo why don&#8217;t people want to do overnight camping in parks and on remote trails? Some people write it off to Americans wanting cushy vacations. But that&#8217;s just a restatement of the question: Why do they want cushy vacations and not an outdoor experience?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just leaves more room for the rest of us, I figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Sacramento Bee editorial: Overnight camping stays in the national parks have dropped more than 20 percent over the past decade. The outdoor industry finds long-distance backpacking is off by 25 percent since 1998. It might be tempting to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/16\/re-camping-backpacking-on-the-wane\/\">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\/522"}],"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=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}