{"id":1012,"date":"2017-07-12T23:18:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T22:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nickispenblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:59:39","slug":"winter-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/12\/winter-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So after another amazing couple of months in Australia, a time filled with festivals; Woodford friends; a getaway at Rainbow Beach (backed by walls a multi shade of sandy yellows); and the beautiful hinterland vistas in the Sunshine Coast, I made my way back to New Zealand. Back to the mountain.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-1015\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20170515_172806.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20170515_172806.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20170515_172806-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20170515_172806-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Thanks for the magic Australia<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A couple of months into the job, less than one week into the madness of school holidays, I&#8217;m sat by the fire as snow storms down from the sky. Roads are closed and I left a 50cm snow angel in our front garden.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-1013\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20170713_080528.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20170713_080528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20170713_080528-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20170713_080528-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>View from the house today<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of the hard work and training has come to fruition as our landscape dazzles white.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My day yesterday turned from a bad weather day, to a day waiting to discover if we would be able to evacuate the mountain, or if I should have taken my sleeping bag with me to work. Weather crept through our rental shop door as gales rushed across the plaza. After hours of work our transport team managed to get all customers and staff to safety before the day was over.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think it&#8217;s safe to say winter has arrived.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20170713_093610.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20170713_093610.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20170713_093610-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20170713_093610-45x60.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after another amazing couple of months in Australia, a time filled with festivals; Woodford friends; a getaway at Rainbow Beach (backed by walls a multi shade of sandy yellows); and the beautiful hinterland vistas in the Sunshine Coast, I made my way back to New Zealand. Back to the mountain. A couple of months &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20,391],"tags":[56,176],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-new-zealand","category-solo-travel","tag-brisbane","tag-mtruapehu","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}