{"id":1188,"date":"2009-12-23T00:47:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T07:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/heli-muniing\/"},"modified":"2018-12-09T17:36:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T01:36:35","slug":"heli-muniing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/heli-muniing\/","title":{"rendered":"Heli-muniing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>Today was one of the best days ever. A bunch of us in New Zealand went &#8220;Heli-muniing&#8221;. For the uninformed, that is taking a helicopter to the top of a mountain and riding our muni (mountain unicycles) down to the bottom. Totally awesome. The adventurers: Andy (the ringleader\/organizer), Irene (his lovely wife), Nathan (who provided rad pictures), Beau (who rode almost everything), John (amazing rode it without a brake!), Scott (who rode it with 125mm cranks), two guides from Fat Tyre Adventures and myself (on the geared 24&#8243; mountain unicycle).<\/p>\n<p>Some of the great pictures by Nathan Hoover.<\/p>\n<p>John Foss walking in front of the machine we are about to depart in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/P1020489.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/P1020489.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"P1020489.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>View of the ride:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/P1020505.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/P1020505.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"P1020505.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Landing. The chopper took two trips to get us all there. Nathan had already arrived and took a picture of the last of us getting out. I&#8217;m on the left with the uni:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/P1020519.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/P1020519-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"P1020519.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/P1020578.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/P1020578.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"P1020578.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Me crossing the freezing river:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/P1020557.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/P1020557-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"P1020557.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was one of the best days ever. A bunch of us in New Zealand went &#8220;Heli-muniing&#8221;. For the uninformed, that is taking a helicopter to the top of a mountain and riding our muni&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/heli-muniing\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[3],"tags":[131,166],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unicycling","tag-adventure","tag-new-zealand-2010"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/heli_muni_thumb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5859,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/5859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}