{"id":798,"date":"2006-12-03T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=798"},"modified":"2006-12-03T06:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T11:34:00","slug":"lost-bay-area-hikers-talk-to-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/12\/03\/lost-bay-area-hikers-talk-to-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Bay Area hikers talk to the press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/16152363.htm\">As usual, the simplest explanation is the most likely:<\/a> They hiked down a steep ravine full of thick brush and lost the trail in the dark. The terrain was too steep and the brush too thick to find their way out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What started as a short afternoon hike a week ago Saturday began to take a bad turn when the couple lost track of time and darkness overcame them.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nHad it ended there, Arnaud Stehle said, &#8220;it would be a good joke to tell on Sunday. Some people would make fun of us and that would be it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nInstead, the Stehles daily efforts to find a path out of the park proved fruitless. The couple would pick up what they thought was a trail and follow it for two miles. &#8220;In the end&#8221; it was always the same, Maria Stahle said, &#8220;nothing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/12\/03\/BAGN9MOI9A1.DTL\">This story in the S.F. Chronicle <\/a>has them describing unexpected cloud cover blocking their view of the ridge as the sun went down Saturday. Before long they were stuck.   Those were pretty clouds. I got some good pictures of them hiking in the Santa Cruz Mountains 20 miles north of there last Saturday.  Just my luck: I had all my survival gear and didn&#8217;t need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, the simplest explanation is the most likely: They hiked down a steep ravine full of thick brush and lost the trail in the dark. The terrain was too steep and the brush too thick to find their way&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/12\/03\/lost-bay-area-hikers-talk-to-the-press\/\">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":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"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=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}