{"id":14462,"date":"2024-04-14T10:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T17:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=14462"},"modified":"2024-04-14T10:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T17:46:21","slug":"tama-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2024\/04\/14\/tama-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tama Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It turns out that there is still a sun up there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wet stuff mostly stopped for the day today, and while clouds still partially obscured the views, after four days of rain, when I saw blue sky this morning I was amped up like a puppy ready to go for his walk. With the 20 kilometer Tongariro Alpine Crossing scheduled for tomorrow, I decided to warm up for it with the 18 kilometer Tama Lakes Track today. I haven’t gotten to go hiking in a few days, so while a smarter man might have taken it easier today, I am not such a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hike was a good one. The elevation change wasn’t too bad, it traversed some neat alpine scenery, and it ended up at a high ridge with a view of the two aqua blue lakes. Various volcanic peaks occasionally also partially appeared from the clouds, hinting at some next-level glorious scenery, but the clouds never quite parted enough to get a sense of what it must be like on a perfectly clear day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow it’s off on what is generally regarded to be New Zealand’s best day-hike. It won’t be perfect weather, but I’m excited to be able to at least get out there and do it after such a long stretch of rainy days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Lower<\/p>\n

Lower Tama Lake, Tongariro National Park. Both lakes formed inside of volcanic explosion craters, and two large volcanoes were looming on the horizon, partially obscured behind the clouds.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It turns out that there is still a sun up there. The wet stuff mostly stopped for the day today, and while clouds still partially obscured the views, after four days of rain, when I saw blue sky this morning I was amped up like a puppy ready to go for his walk. With the … Continue reading “Tama Lakes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,77,30],"class_list":["post-14462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-2024-walkabout","tag-new-zealand","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14462"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14471,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14462\/revisions\/14471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}