{"id":4787,"date":"2011-12-21T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2012-01-07T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T15:20:45","slug":"mountain-biking-makara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2011\/12\/mountain-biking-makara\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain biking Makara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I borrowed Gina&#8217;s mountain bike and headed off to Makara to try out the mountain biking there. I turns out there are a bunch of nice little trails around Makara peak. I rode up along little tracks surrounded by green ferns. At times the trails are completely surrounded in bush and at other times you get a view either out towards Northland (the suburb) and Wellington Harbour, or over to the South Island. I descended via the &#8220;North Face&#8221;, which is a nice flowing single track that starts at the top of Makara peak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fernmakarapeakwellington_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fernmakarapeakwellington_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"Fern (Makara Peak, Wellington) resize\" width=\"225\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/onmakarapeakmakarapeakwellington_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/onmakarapeakmakarapeakwellington_resize-small.jpg\" alt=\"On Makara Peak (Makara Peak, Wellington) resize\" width=\"225\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: The single tracks at Makara wind their way through natives like this fern. At least the tracks that I tried did&#8230; Above right: Being a poser on Makara Peak.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 400px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4787-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Riding-Makara-Makara-Peak-MTB-Park_720p.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Riding-Makara-Makara-Peak-MTB-Park_720p.mp4\">https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Riding-Makara-Makara-Peak-MTB-Park_720p.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Above: Descending from Makara Peak.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 400px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4787-2\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Riding-Makara-Makara-Peak-MTB-Park_720p.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Riding-Makara-Makara-Peak-MTB-Park_720p.mp4\">https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Riding-Makara-Makara-Peak-MTB-Park_720p.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Above: Riding at Makara.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I caught up with <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/markatthefountainbrasov_resize.jpg\">Mark <\/a>for a coffee in the afternoon before flying back to Christchurch in the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I borrowed Gina&#8217;s mountain bike and headed off to Makara to try out the mountain biking there. I turns out there are a bunch of nice little trails around Makara peak. I rode up along little tracks surrounded by green ferns. At times the trails are completely surrounded in bush and at other times 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":[69,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountain-biking","category-new-zealand","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","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=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}