{"id":679,"date":"2006-10-05T23:32:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T04:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=679"},"modified":"2006-10-05T23:32:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T04:32:57","slug":"ho-down-weekend-is-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/10\/05\/ho-down-weekend-is-upon-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Ho Down weekend is upon us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/besthike.com\/blog\/\">Rick<\/a>&#8216;s flying in from Canada, <a href=\"http:\/\/littlepo.com\/\">Szu-Ting<\/a>&#8216;s flying over from Philly and a quartet of Bay Area bloggers are meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troutunderground.com\/\">Mr. Trout Underground<\/a> near Mount Shasta around dinnertime for food, camping and chit-chat. Saturday we hike a bit of the Pacific Crest Trail, then it&#8217;s a gourmet dinner courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiawinehikes.com\/winehiker\/\">WineHiker Russ<\/a>, a campfire and more chit-chat (lubricated by some of Russ&#8217;s favorite wines) and another night out in the woods, then Sunday we pack it all up and head back  home.<\/p>\n<p><P>I&#8217;ve already tossed a challenge to a potential host of the Second Annual Ho Down: I mentioned to <a href=\"http:\/\/cutter.wordpress.com\/\">Cutter<\/a> that he ought to host a blogger meet-up next year at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traildays.info\/\">Trail Days<\/a> in Damascus, Virginia.  He&#8217;s led Boy Scouts across the Rockies so plotting a get-together among thru-hikers should be a snap.<\/p>\n<p><P>I&#8217;ll have words &#038; pictures next week, and you&#8217;ll all be so green with envy that you&#8217;ll be chafing at the bit to attend Ho Down No. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick&#8216;s flying in from Canada, Szu-Ting&#8216;s flying over from Philly and a quartet of Bay Area bloggers are meeting Mr. Trout Underground near Mount Shasta around dinnertime for food, camping and chit-chat. Saturday we hike a bit of the Pacific&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/10\/05\/ho-down-weekend-is-upon-us\/\">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":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679"}],"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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}