{"id":677,"date":"2012-06-02T00:38:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T05:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=677"},"modified":"2012-06-02T01:19:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T06:19:48","slug":"quehanna-trail-%e2%80%9cbackpacking-wonderland%e2%80%9d-or-fracking-%e2%80%9c%e2%80%a6that-endangered-life-and-property-%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"Quehanna Trail &#8212; \u201cbackpacking wonderland\u201d or FRACKING  \u201c\u2026that endangered life and property.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll be on the Quehanna Trail in the Moshannon Strate Forest in three days. Described in Backpacking Pennsylvania (Mitchell) thusly \u2013 \u201c<em>This region epitomizes expansive isolation with deep forests, wetlands, beautiful streams, open meadows, and scenic glens\u2026This is a backpacking wonderland<\/em>.\u201d \u00a0BUT&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fran checks Google Earth to get an idea of conditions, and notices little white marks in vicinity of trail. She zooms in and\u2026.FRACKING! FRACKING?\u00a0 Located in the vicinity of where we were thinking to make our first night\u2019s camp. Next Fran finds the following news item for this same area: \u00a0\u201cFRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2010. Marcellus Well Blows out in Moshannon State Forest.\u00a0 DEP secretary John Hanger told the press that his agency intends to investigate aggressively the circumstances surrounding this blowout. \u2018The event at the well site could have been a catastrophic incident that endangered life and property; said Hanger, adding that \u2018it was not a minor accident, but a serious incident.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re now thinking that this backpacking trip may be an unexpected two-pronged affair: 1) Getting away from the world and into the wilderness; 2) Seeing how the world seems determined to destroy the wilderness, and perhaps inspiring us to find new ways to work to stop this desecration, particularly with respect to our opposition to fracking (something that can endanger us all).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll be on the Quehanna Trail in the Moshannon Strate Forest in three days. Described in Backpacking Pennsylvania (Mitchell) thusly \u2013 \u201cThis region epitomizes expansive isolation with deep forests, wetlands, beautiful streams, open meadows, and scenic glens\u2026This is a backpacking wonderland.\u201d \u00a0BUT&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}