{"id":1692,"date":"2014-05-18T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/05\/18\/why-carry-when-hiking\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:24:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:24:06","slug":"why-carry-when-hiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"Why Carry When Hiking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11871,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.foxnews.com\\\/us\\\/2014\\\/05\\\/18\\\/massachusetts-man-fatally-shot-in-robbery-on-remote-northern-california-hiking&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.foxnews.com\\\/us\\\/2014\\\/05\\\/18\\\/massachusetts-man-fatally-shot-in-robbery-on-remote-northern-california-hiking&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11872,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flyingdragonltd.us&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nYou are out in the woods communing with nature. It is peaceful and quiet. The only man-made sounds you hear are your own footsteps on the trail. So why in the world would you need to carry a firearm?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/05\/18\/massachusetts-man-fatally-shot-in-robbery-on-remote-northern-california-hiking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Francis &#8220;Pat&#8221; Gregory, 69, of West Tisbury, and a 76-year-old man from Manton, California, were hiking a trail north of Red Bluff on Friday when they were confronted by a gunman, said Tehama County Sheriff&#8217;s Lt. Dave Greer.<\/p>\n<p>The robber shot the men after taking their money and belongings, and left the victims for dead on a remote part of the trail until another hiker came upon them about three hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory died at the scene; the surviving victim was hospitalized with critical injuries. A doctor told investigators he was expected to pull through, Greer said.<\/p>\n<p>The men were found about 100 yards from the start of a Bureau of Land Management trail that leads through grasslands, oak trees and lava rocks to an overlook above a bend in the Sacramento River.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can find some more examples plus some good advice on keeping safe on the trail in Michael Bane&#8217;s <i>Trail Safe<\/i>. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyingdragonltd.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">find it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are out in the woods communing with nature. It is peaceful and quiet. The only man-made sounds you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2612,1224,2613],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-backwoods-violence","tag-michael-bane","tag-trail-safe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9872,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/9872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}