{"id":611,"date":"2006-08-21T09:51:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T14:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=611"},"modified":"2006-08-21T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T14:51:31","slug":"hiking-at-the-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/08\/21\/hiking-at-the-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking at the heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lordy, another excellent SportsGeezer post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsgeezer.com\/sportsgeezer\/2006\/08\/three_tips_to_p.html\">Tips for hiking at high altitudes. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I did my first hike with notable altitude effects last summer at Lassen Peak, which tops out at over 10,000 feet.  Lassen is at best a moderate hike; many Bay Area trails are tougher.  On the Lassen Peak trail, everything about the walk &#8212; exertion level, perspiration, etc. &#8212; felt normal, except for my heart rate, which was racing the way I&#8217;d expect after a quarter mile of really steep, difficult terrain. Basic biology: your lungs crave extra oxygen so your heart works faster to provide it.<br \/>\n<P>The thinner air also started giving me a headache and I reasoned, heck, water has a lot of oxygen in it, so drinking more should help that out. And sure enough, a few extra swallows killed the cranial complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lordy, another excellent SportsGeezer post: Tips for hiking at high altitudes. I did my first hike with notable altitude effects last summer at Lassen Peak, which tops out at over 10,000 feet. Lassen is at best a moderate hike; many&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/08\/21\/hiking-at-the-heights\/\">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":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}