{"id":12123,"date":"2009-05-12T10:32:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T17:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12123"},"modified":"2009-05-12T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T19:31:12","slug":"snowboard-skiing-skiings-holly-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12123","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Skiing &#8211; Skiing&#8217;s Holly Grail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nothing quickens the pulse quite like the whoomp-whoomp of a helicopter approaching a high altitude snowfield.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When\u00c2\u00a0it&#8217;s a six-seater Bell 407 dropping\u00c2\u00a0in to scoop up you and your\u00c2\u00a0adrenaline-high mates for another\u00c2\u00a0ski run down almost 1,000 vertical\u00c2\u00a0metres of featherlight powder\u00c2\u00a0snow, the sensation is scarily exciting and (the Aussie said it) positively pre-orgasmic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We huddle on the snow while the pilot parks his bird as close as a kerbside taxi, and pile aboard in the manner prescribed -\u00c2\u00a0head down to avoid decapitation, backside first, calm and orderly. It&#8217;s all we can do to stop giggling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Airborne again, we can take in the &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/travel\/international\/2404222\/Skiings-holy-grail\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing quickens the pulse quite like the whoomp-whoomp of a helicopter approaching a high altitude snowfield. When\u00c2\u00a0it&#8217;s a six-seater Bell 407 dropping\u00c2\u00a0in to scoop up you and your\u00c2\u00a0adrenaline-high mates for another\u00c2\u00a0ski run down almost 1,000 vertical\u00c2\u00a0metres of featherlight powder\u00c2\u00a0snow, the sensation is scarily exciting and (the Aussie said it) positively pre-orgasmic. We huddle on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12125,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12123\/revisions\/12125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}