{"id":12323,"date":"2009-10-19T16:35:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/19\/the-risks-of-desert-hiking\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T16:35:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:35:41","slug":"the-risks-of-desert-hiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/19\/the-risks-of-desert-hiking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Risks of Desert Hiking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">In a society made litigious by an excess of lawyers, the need for various CYA maneuvers is correspondingly great. One such is the disclaimer. I particularly enjoy the disclaimers found in well-written hiking books. Rare is the hiking book that doesn&#39;t have one these days. The following is from Ted Tenny, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mile204.us\/Goldfields\/\"><font color=\"#810081\" face=\"Georgia\">Goldfield Mountain Hikes<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, p. 4:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The risks of desert hiking include, but are not limited to: heatstroke, heat exhaustion, heat prostration, heat cramps, sunburn, dehydration, flash floods, drowning, freezing, hypothermia, getting lost, getting stranded after dark, falling, tripping, being stung, clawed or bitten by venomous or non-venomous creatures, being scratched or stuck by thorny plants, being struck by lightning, falling rocks, natural or artificial objects falling from the sky, or a comet colliding with the Earth.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Still up for a hike?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a society made litigious by an excess of lawyers, the need for various CYA maneuvers is correspondingly great. One such is the disclaimer. I particularly enjoy the disclaimers found in well-written hiking books. Rare is the hiking book that doesn&#39;t have one these days. The following is from Ted Tenny, Goldfield Mountain Hikes, p. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/19\/the-risks-of-desert-hiking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Risks of Desert Hiking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking-and-backpacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}