{"id":539,"date":"2006-06-27T09:38:43","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T14:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=539"},"modified":"2006-06-27T09:38:43","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T14:38:43","slug":"whats-your-most-versatile-piece-of-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/27\/whats-your-most-versatile-piece-of-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s your most versatile piece of gear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You never know what you&#8217;ll end up getting the most use out of till you start, well using it.  When I first started hiking I found I always wanted a soft seat when breaking for lunch, so I picked up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thermarest.com\/product_detail.aspx?pID=45&#038;cID=4\">ThermaRest Lite Seat. <\/a>It&#8217;s about the size of a stadium seat, with self-inflating foam inside. Weighs 3.5 ounces and has come in handy on pretty much all my campouts and long hikes. In the summer I add ice cubes to my water bladder and the Lite Seat makes an excellent insulating layer inside my pack to keep water cold for several hours.  Lately I&#8217;ve been folding it in half and using it as a pillow on overnighters.  When I was determined to sleep on an inch-thick foam pad, I put the Lite Seat under my hips to get at least a little bit of padding.  A lot of my stuff sits on the shelf most of the year but this little pad earns its keep.<\/p>\n<p><P>A lot of veteran campers scoff at the notion of paying extra for a custom-fitted tent footprint; I learned of this only after I&#8217;d shelled out 25 bucks for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/online\/store\/Search?vcat=REI_SEARCH&#038;stat=7889&#038;langId=-1&#038;storeId=8000&#038;query=quarter+dome+footprint&#038;x=19&#038;y=12\">footprint<\/a> to go with my REI Quarter Dome.  These days, though, I get far more use from the footprint than from the tent. It&#8217;s made of sturdy coated nylon that&#8217;ll keep just about anything from puncturing my inflatable pad &#8212; nice to have when camping with a tarp or floorless tent.  It just feels nice to have that strong material between me and the ground.   And I can convert it to rain gear in a pinch.<\/p>\n<p><P>So, what about the rest of you hikers out there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You never know what you&#8217;ll end up getting the most use out of till you start, well using it. When I first started hiking I found I always wanted a soft seat when breaking for lunch, so I picked up&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/27\/whats-your-most-versatile-piece-of-gear\/\">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},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}