{"id":1440,"date":"2026-08-29T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:47:49","slug":"here-and-there-on-flat-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Here and There on Flat Top"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi everyone.<br>This Saturday the harriers head to Logantown (where the toilet is) at Bendigo. We are car pooling, departing Alexandra at 12 Midday, Not 1pm as listed in the programme.<br>We will be car pooling as the bus can not go up the hill .<br>Duty Pack M-Zs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Saturday the club went down to Butchers Dam &#8211; Flat Top area. The W1s paid off the W2s to be late back so the 1s could claim to be back on time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The W1s went at 12 with a second group at 1pm &#8211; both walked the Purple Haze Track. Joe led the W2s straight up the hill across from the dam testing a new route he is developing. After a great view up and down Lake Roxburgh they followed the Basin View track down and back to afternoon tea at the dam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The W3s wandered the tracks around the dam and were back as usual with plenty of time before afternoon tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other than a cool breeze on top, the weather was better than Alexa predicted!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Alexa was asked about the weather for Tarras (twice) on Saturday, the reply that the weather in Paris would be 25 degrees.<br>Reverting to asking for the temperature for Cromwell, the response was Cloudy skies with a high of 12 degrees!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have sent this email out unsupervised so may have to resend it later if I have things wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See you on Saturday.<br>Gary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe led the W2s straight up the hill across from the dam testing a new route<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-by-gary","tag-15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexharriers.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}