{"id":30687,"date":"2018-12-31T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?page_id=30687"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:22:01","slug":"highlights-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/summary-2\/highlights-2015-2019\/highlights-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-19558 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-new-zealand category-pack-rafting tag-highlight tag-highlight2018 entry has-media\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2018\/12\/mountain-rafting-dec-2018\/\" target=\"_self\" >Mountain Rafting Dec 2018<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2018\/12\/mountain-rafting-dec-2018\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Crossing-the-Godley-Glacier-Terminal-Lake-Mountain-rafting-Dec-2018-640x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mountain Rafting Dec 2018\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Crossing-the-Godley-Glacier-Terminal-Lake-Mountain-rafting-Dec-2018-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Crossing-the-Godley-Glacier-Terminal-Lake-Mountain-rafting-Dec-2018-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Crossing-the-Godley-Glacier-Terminal-Lake-Mountain-rafting-Dec-2018-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Crossing-the-Godley-Glacier-Terminal-Lake-Mountain-rafting-Dec-2018-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Crossing-the-Godley-Glacier-Terminal-Lake-Mountain-rafting-Dec-2018.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Crossing-the-Godley-Glacier-Terminal-Lake-Mountain-rafting-Dec-2018-1010x758.jpg 1010w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">I was hanging around in Christchurch enjoying road riding and cafes when Chris and Emily worked their powers of persuasion on me. They assured me it would be an easy trip as Emily had a certain 9 month condition. The weather on the West Coast was supposed to be awful and we had decided not&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2018-12-31T10:46:00+02:00\">December 31, 2018<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-18510 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-germany category-via-ferrata tag-highlight tag-highlight2018 entry has-media\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2018\/07\/zugspitze\/\" target=\"_self\" >Zugspitze July 2018<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2018\/07\/zugspitze\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Johannes-leads-the-way-Zugspitze-July-2018-640x427.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Zugspitze July 2018\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Johannes-leads-the-way-Zugspitze-July-2018-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Johannes-leads-the-way-Zugspitze-July-2018-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Johannes-leads-the-way-Zugspitze-July-2018-1010x674.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Johannes-leads-the-way-Zugspitze-July-2018-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Johannes-leads-the-way-Zugspitze-July-2018-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Johannes-leads-the-way-Zugspitze-July-2018.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Johannes and I drove to Munich on Saturday collecting Brendan and some boots for Johannes there before driving on to Garmisch-Partenkirchen where we camped the night. On Sunday we got up at 5 am and by 6:30 am we began walking up towards Zugspitze. We followed the route through the H\u00f6llentalschlucht and up to the&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2018-07-08T20:31:00+02:00\">July 8, 2018<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-18400 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-austria category-cycling category-racing category-road-cycling tag-highlight tag-highlight2018 entry\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2018\/06\/dolomitenradrundfahrt-lienz-2018\/\" target=\"_self\" >Dolomitenradrundfahrt Lienz 2018<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">I caught the train to Innsbruck on Saturday and Leonie and I drove to Lienz from there. We had entered a road cycling race on Sunday. The route is near the Lienzer Dolomites and is 112km with around 1800 m of climbing. We headed to the start line right next to our campsite on Sunday&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2018-06-10T22:05:00+02:00\">June 10, 2018<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31872,"parent":30542,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30687","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30723,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30687\/revisions\/30723"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}