{"id":30689,"date":"2017-12-31T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?page_id=30689"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:25:25","slug":"highlights-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/summary-2\/highlights-2015-2019\/highlights-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights 2017"},"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-14333 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-cycling category-racing category-road-cycling tag-highlight tag-highlight2017 tag-racinghighlight entry has-media\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2017\/06\/tour-transalp-2017-day-ii\/\" target=\"_self\" >Tour Transalp 2017 &#8211; Day II<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2017\/06\/tour-transalp-2017-day-ii\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC9303-825x510.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tour Transalp 2017 &#8211; Day II\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">The second day of the Tour Transalp was much nicer than the first.&nbsp; Instead of driving rain we had sunshine. We started in Imst and again due to our second class status as two-day-entrants we were right at the very back. The first 4.5 km were neutralised but as is usually the case with neutralised&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=\"2017-06-26T21:22:00+02:00\">June 26, 2017<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-14316 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-austria category-climbing tag-highlight tag-highlight2017 entry has-media\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2017\/06\/more-plombergstein-multi-pitch\/\" target=\"_self\" >More plombergstein multi pitch<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2017\/06\/more-plombergstein-multi-pitch\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Some-of-the-crew-Salzkammergut-Adventures-825x510.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"More plombergstein multi pitch\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">We managed to leave reasonably early and headed back down to the Plombergstein crag near St Gilgen where we were yesterday. The plan was to have three rope teams on each of the three multi pitch routes that we knew about. Once we got there we realised though that there would not be enough time&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=\"2017-06-18T23:44:00+02:00\">June 18, 2017<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-14235 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-austria category-ski-touring category-skiing category-switzerland tag-highlight tag-highlight2017 tag-skiinghighlight entry has-media\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2017\/04\/skitouring-hut-to-hut-april-2017\/\" target=\"_self\" >Skitouring Hut-to-Hut April 2017<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2017\/04\/skitouring-hut-to-hut-april-2017\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Craig-ascendingJamtalhuette-Heidelbergerhuette-April-2017-1-640x427.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Skitouring Hut-to-Hut April 2017\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Craig-ascendingJamtalhuette-Heidelbergerhuette-April-2017-1-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Craig-ascendingJamtalhuette-Heidelbergerhuette-April-2017-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Craig-ascendingJamtalhuette-Heidelbergerhuette-April-2017-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Craig-ascendingJamtalhuette-Heidelbergerhuette-April-2017-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Craig-ascendingJamtalhuette-Heidelbergerhuette-April-2017-1-1010x674.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Craig-ascendingJamtalhuette-Heidelbergerhuette-April-2017-1.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\">Day 1 Craig arrived by train on Saturday morning and we drove to Galt\u00fcr in Austria. It was warm and sunny and our skis seemed a bit out of place. They seemed even more out of place when we discovered that the first 6 kms up the valley towards the hut were snow free. Still,&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=\"2017-04-10T06:16:00+02:00\">April 10, 2017<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-14238 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-cycling category-road-cycling tag-highlight tag-highlight2017 entry has-media\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2017\/04\/a-week-in-the-canary-islands\/\" target=\"_self\" >A week in the Canary Islands<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2017\/04\/a-week-in-the-canary-islands\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Winding-pass-road-Gran-Canaria-2017_thumb-640x428.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"A week in the Canary Islands\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Winding-pass-road-Gran-Canaria-2017_thumb-640x428.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Winding-pass-road-Gran-Canaria-2017_thumb-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Winding-pass-road-Gran-Canaria-2017_thumb-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Winding-pass-road-Gran-Canaria-2017_thumb.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Well just one of them. Leonie and I broke with tradition and booked a package holiday to Gran Canaria. We spent a week in a hotel devoid of stars but with plenty of cigarette smoke in Playa del Ingles. Despite the shabby room it was all ok as we went road cycling for many hours&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=\"2017-04-02T08:47:00+02:00\">April 2, 2017<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-14061 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-austria category-via-ferrata tag-highlight tag-highlight2017 tag-skiinghighlight entry has-media\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2017\/03\/arlberger-winterklettersteig\/\" target=\"_self\" >Arlberger Winterklettersteig<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2017\/03\/arlberger-winterklettersteig\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Leonie-climbing-Arlberger-Winterklettersteig-March-2017-825x510.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Arlberger Winterklettersteig\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">It was beautiful spring weather. J\u00f6rg picked Leonie and I up from Lindau and we drove to Sankt Anton. The plan was to do the Arlberger Winterklettersteig. It\u2019s a via ferrata route that starts at 2650 m above sea level and heads along a ridgeline to the Vordere-Rendlespitze before dropping down to the Mitterkarspitze and&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=\"2017-03-12T19:23:00+02:00\">March 12, 2017<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31873,"parent":30542,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30689","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\/30689","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=30689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30724,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30689\/revisions\/30724"}],"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\/31873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}