{"id":101,"date":"2019-01-12T19:18:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T19:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2019-01-12T19:18:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T19:18:03","slug":"1-you-dont-have-to-know-your-end-goal-to-be-on-the-right-path","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/index.php\/lessons-learned\/1-you-dont-have-to-know-your-end-goal-to-be-on-the-right-path\/","title":{"rendered":"1. You don&#8217;t have to know your end goal to be on the right path"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3724-1-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"102\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/?attachment_id=102\" class=\"wp-image-102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3724-1-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3724-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3724-1-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3724-1-1568x1175.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The hardest part of anything is just beginning it.  My first night camping was the hardest.  I laugh now thinking about my cushy campsite at Katahdin Stream Campground with bear-poles, shelters, and people-galore.  But that was truly one of the sadder, scarier nights for me.  I literally set up my tent IN the shelter for an added layer of &#8220;false protection&#8221; from the woods.  Still it is one of the nights I&#8217;m most proud of despite having hiked zero miles that day because I had made a goal and I was finally starting.<br>These photos are from my first day on the trail, which was fittingly one of the most difficult hiking days.  Hiking up Katahdin is a challenge of a rock scramble in any weather, but I got it in a misty rain-fest.  But my stubborn-self had decided I was starting that day, so there it was.  I literally didn&#8217;t know what my end goal, the summit, looked like; but I did know from the white blazes that I was on the right path. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hardest part of anything is just beginning it. My first night camping was the hardest. I laugh now thinking about my cushy campsite at Katahdin Stream Campground with bear-poles, shelters, and people-galore. But that was truly one of the sadder, scarier nights for me. I literally set up my tent IN the shelter for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/113"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mantos.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}