{"id":6541,"date":"2013-01-14T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2013-04-13T21:24:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T19:24:35","slug":"dash-into-the-routeburn-track-jan-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2013\/01\/dash-into-the-routeburn-track-jan-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Dash into the Routeburn Track Jan 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leonie and I left Kidd\u2019s Bush early and drove to Queenstown. We had left extra early and that allowed us to drive speedily to the start of the Routeburn track. We went for a walk to the first saddle from the Glenorchy side, had a bite to eat and ran back out again before driving back to Queenstown, picking up my parents, and driving to Te Anau.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/View-Routeburn-Track.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"View (Routeburn Track)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"View (Routeburn Track)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/View-Routeburn-Track_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Leonie-and-Cris-on-track-Routeburn-Track.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Leonie and Cris on track (Routeburn Track)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Leonie and Cris on track (Routeburn Track)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Leonie-and-Cris-on-track-Routeburn-Track_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: We had a few hours before we were expected to pick up the parentals from Queenstown so we sped into the start of the Routeburn track and went walking \/jogging for a few hours. Above right: We did some posing too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Nice-waterfall-2-Routeburn-Track.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Nice waterfall 2 (Routeburn Track)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Nice waterfall 2 (Routeburn Track)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Nice-waterfall-2-Routeburn-Track_thumb.jpg\" width=\"164\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/View-beside-river-Routeburn-Track.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"View beside river (Routeburn Track)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"View beside river (Routeburn Track)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/View-beside-river-Routeburn-Track_thumb.jpg\" width=\"164\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Leonie-on-a-log-Routeburn-Track.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Leonie on a log (Routeburn Track)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Leonie on a log (Routeburn Track)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Leonie-on-a-log-Routeburn-Track_thumb.jpg\" width=\"164\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: We found lots of nice waterfalls along the way. Above middle: We had a bite to eat at the river here. Above right: Leonie found a log to pose on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mmm-crackers-Routeburn-Track.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Mmm crackers (Routeburn Track)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mmm crackers (Routeburn Track)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Mmm-crackers-Routeburn-Track_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: Yum, crackers, how delicious. Why don&#8217;t Germans know how to do crackers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonie and I left Kidd\u2019s Bush early and drove to Queenstown. We had left extra early and that allowed us to drive speedily to the start of the Routeburn track. We went for a walk to the first saddle from the Glenorchy side, had a bite to eat and ran back out again before driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-running","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541","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=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6542,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions\/6542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}