{"id":1168,"date":"2015-11-07T15:55:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T22:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dltwt.com\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2015-11-07T15:55:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T22:55:16","slug":"over-the-rivers-and-through-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"Over the River(s) and through the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

After tramping around Queenstown & Lake Wakatipu on Wednesday, we decided to rent bikes on Thursday.\u00a0\u00a0Our big, audacious goal was to ride to Arrowtown.\u00a0 That goal was quickly squashed when the bike shop told us that this ride that we had in mind was a 64km round-trip, uphill ride.\u00a0 Not being deterred, we set off to ride the trail for a few hours & turn around at a set time.<\/p>\n

The ride was great but clearly the bicycle muscles are different from the walking muscles.\u00a0 We had some downhill rides but plenty of uphill riding.\u00a0 Lesley did better than David on sustaining the uphill riding – maybe spinning works?\u00a0 The river was beautiful, the views of the Lake\u00a0were always enjoyable.\u00a0 We never made it to the top of our interim stop, ironically called “Thompson’s Hill”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0( We were warned that this\u00a0“hill” would be\u00a0the\u00a0most challenging part of\u00a0our cycle.)\u00a0 \u00a0We did ride about 29-30 miles on the dirt\/gravel track, including a wrong turn that took us down another trail.\u00a0 We returned the bikes and were very\u00a0tired, sore (hate those bicycle seats!)\u00a0but enthused about what we did accomplish.<\/p>\n

On Friday, we fly to Auckland for an overnight stay before flying to Sydney for 7 days.\u00a0 It is hard to believe that we only have about 5 weeks left on this first segment.\u00a0 We hope that snow starts to fall in Utah soon; as, we have been tantalized by the snow covered mountains in the South Island of New Zealand!<\/p>\n

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\"Lake<\/a>
Lake Wakatipu from the south<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Watch<\/a>
Watch out bikers!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Another<\/a>
Another skilled mountain biker!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Kawarau<\/a>
Kawarau River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Shotover<\/a>
Shotover River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Love<\/a>
Love these trees!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Shotover<\/a>
Shotover River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Always<\/a>
Always great views in the area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Kawarau<\/a>
Kawarau River with the spring flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"View<\/a>
View with a big downhill (& uphill returning!) trail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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After tramping around Queenstown & Lake Wakatipu on Wednesday, we decided to rent bikes on Thursday.\u00a0\u00a0Our big, audacious goal was to ride to Arrowtown.\u00a0 That goal was quickly squashed when the bike shop told us that this ride that we had in mind was a 64km round-trip, uphill ride.\u00a0 Not being deterred, we set off … Continue reading Over the River(s) and through the Woods<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Si9J-iQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}