{"id":678,"date":"2006-10-05T18:32:38","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T23:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=678"},"modified":"2006-10-05T18:32:38","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T23:32:38","slug":"tracking-next-years-thru-hikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/10\/05\/tracking-next-years-thru-hikers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking next year&#8217;s thru-hikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any of my hiking-blogging brethren interested in culling the best from the Class of 2007 thru-hikers who are posting at <a href=\"http:\/\/trailjournals.com\">Trail Journals?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I&#8217;ve already looked over about a dozen potential Pacific Crest Trail hikers and  I can only guess how many Appalachian Trail folks are already starting their journals.  Too many for me to keep track of, for sure.<br \/>\n<P>I know, the whole keeping a journal of the  journals thing is a bit too postmodern, but I feel like it&#8217;s worth a the effort of a few of us to do a sortdown, finding the best posts and shining a light on the best writers.  If we were really ambitious we could start a Trail Journals blog with various folks assigned to specific trails.<\/p>\n<p>This feels like a more realistic approach: I&#8217;ll take on the PCT since it&#8217;s near where I live. The rest of &#8217;em are up to the rest of you.  If you like a trail and find a journaler who merits attention, put it on your blogs. When the venture capitalists come along throwing millions at us to reward this brilliant expression of Internet interactivity, I promise to share all the credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any of my hiking-blogging brethren interested in culling the best from the Class of 2007 thru-hikers who are posting at Trail Journals? I&#8217;ve already looked over about a dozen potential Pacific Crest Trail hikers and I can only guess how&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/10\/05\/tracking-next-years-thru-hikers\/\">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":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"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=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}