{"id":3729,"date":"2024-09-01T09:46:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2024-12-12T06:52:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T11:52:51","slug":"trekking-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/trekking-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Trekking Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image align-top\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_2300-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2707\" style=\"width:463px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_2300-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_2300-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_2300-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_2300-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_2300-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As we continued to get more skilled in longer distance trekking and adventures, we sought more &#8220;interesting&#8221; locations.   New Zealand claims and supports a number of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.doc.govt.nz\/parks-and-recreation\/things-to-do\/walking-and-tramping\/great-walks\/\">great walks<\/a>&#8220;.   Not unlike trekking in Europe and elsewhere, these are long distance trails, interspersed with overnight huts, maintained by their Department of Conservation.   These Great Walks became the planning centerpiece for our adventure to New Zealand &#8211; a substantial undertaking, not the least because of the travel distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to our New Zealand trekking adventures, we also spent a bit of time in Sydney, in part to manage the risk of our gear getting lost in transit, and also to give us a bit of time to get acclimated to the time zone change!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we continued to get more skilled in longer distance trekking and adventures, we sought more &#8220;interesting&#8221; locations. New Zealand claims and supports a number of &#8220;great walks&#8220;. Not unlike trekking in Europe and elsewhere, these are long distance trails, interspersed with overnight huts, maintained by their Department of Conservation. These Great Walks became the planning centerpiece for our adventure to New Zealand &#8211; a substantial undertaking, not the least because of the travel distance. In addition to our New<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/trekking-down-under\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"category-hiking.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz","category-cat-desc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","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=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}