{"id":2352,"date":"2019-12-05T10:53:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:45:00","slug":"ben-lomond-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/ben-lomond-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Lomond Track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was our first full day in New Zealand \u2013 and while we\u2019d been on the other side of the world for a few days already, our biological clocks were still a bit off. Even so, we wanted to get out on the trail \u2013 and this trek had a starting point which was within walking distance from our AirBnB.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, driving in NZ is on the other side of the road &#8211; we were still getting the swing of that left-side-of-the-road thing (and yes, their roundabouts are an interesting learning experience), so it really wasn&#8217;t something we wanted tackle in our time-zone addled state-of-mind! <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/trax.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/trax.png 639w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/trax-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/trax-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">see it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alltrails.com\/explore\/map\/map-dd50e4d-21\">alltrails.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_2086-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_2086-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_2086-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_2089-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_2089-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_2089-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_2115-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_2115-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_2115-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" 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Even so, we wanted to get out on the trail \u2013 and this trek had a starting point which was within walking distance from our AirBnB. Remember, driving in NZ is on the other side of the road &#8211; we were still getting the swing of<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/ben-lomond-track\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"category-hiking.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}