{"id":1573,"date":"2010-02-05T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2010\/02\/ski-tour\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T01:09:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T00:09:33","slug":"ski-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2010\/02\/ski-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Ski Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the day off and went ski touring in the afternoon with Frauke. We headed out to Oberjoch and went touring up Wertacher H\u00f6rnle. I&#8217;d never been on touring skis before. The bindings are interesting and allow your heel to leave the ski as you walk\/ski up the hill. Then at the top you remove the grippy skin from the ski, clip the boot into the ski and fall down, I mean ski down. I&#8217;m sure I looked quite amusing face planting regularly into the powder.<\/p>\n<p>We went climbing at the gym in the evening with Frauke&#8217;s friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/crisuptohisusualtricksoberjochgermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/crisuptohisusualtricksoberjochgermany_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"Cris up to his usual tricks (Oberjoch, Germany) resize\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/crisandfraukeoberjochgermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/crisandfraukeoberjochgermany_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"Cris and Frauke (Oberjoch, Germany) resize\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: I couldn&#8217;t resist a short dance with the pole at the top of the mountain. Above right: Frauke and I at the top of Wertacher H\u00f6rnle. Well almost. Apparently this is the &#8220;winter gipfel&#8221; meaning what-we-call-the-top-when-it&#8217;s-snowy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fraukeonskisoberjochgermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fraukeonskisoberjochgermany_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"Frauke on skis (Oberjoch, Germany) resize\" width=\"125\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fraukeandherfriendsatthewalloberstdorfgermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fraukeandherfriendsatthewalloberstdorfgermany_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"Frauke and her friends at the wall (Oberstdorf, Germany) resize\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: Frauke on her skis about to lead me on a perilous journey through the dark dark forest. &#8220;The trees will catch you.&#8221;, she said with a smile. Above right: Frauke and her friends at the climbing wall.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 400px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1573-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Cris-really-cannot-ski-Oberjoch-Germany.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Cris-really-cannot-ski-Oberjoch-Germany.mp4\">https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Cris-really-cannot-ski-Oberjoch-Germany.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Above: Cris really can&#8217;t ski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the day off and went ski touring in the afternoon with Frauke. We headed out to Oberjoch and went touring up Wertacher H\u00f6rnle. I&#8217;d never been on touring skis before. The bindings are interesting and allow your heel to leave the ski as you walk\/ski up the hill. Then at the top you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgau","category-germany","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}