{"id":12335,"date":"2014-08-06T13:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=12335"},"modified":"2014-08-06T13:21:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T21:21:06","slug":"elbrus-team-enjoying-some-acclimatization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/06\/elbrus\/elbrus-team-enjoying-some-acclimatization\/","title":{"rendered":"Elbrus Team Enjoying Some Acclimatization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 6, 2014<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12335 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/elbrus-team-schrock-2.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[12335]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/elbrus-team-schrock-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Waterfall on the way to the Observatory. (Photo by Jonathan Schrock)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/elbrus-team-schrock-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/elbrus-team-schrock-2-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/elbrus-team-schrock-2-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/elbrus-team-schrock-2-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12336'>\n\t\t\t\tWaterfall on the way to the Observatory. (Photo by Jonathan Schrock)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-team-schrock.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[12335]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-team-schrock-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Boat ride on the Neva River. (Photo by Jonathan Schrock)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-team-schrock-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-team-schrock-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-team-schrock-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-team-schrock-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12337'>\n\t\t\t\tBoat ride on the Neva River. (Photo by Jonathan Schrock)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>First full day in the Valley is complete.\u00c2\u00a0 It was spent doing their first acclimatization hike up to the Observatory.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about a 3000 vertical foot gain, which is about perfect.\u00c2\u00a0 About 2 hours up.\u00c2\u00a0 Terskol is at just over 7000 feet so that helps a lot, too.\u00c2\u00a0 In bed now with the plan being to head up to the lower slopes of Elbrus tomorrow for a training\/review day.\u00c2\u00a0 It, of course, also provides additional acclimatization.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcClimb high, sleep low\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is still a pretty good mantra to follow when it comes to adapting to altitude.\u00c2\u00a0 Team will be back in the Valley again tomorrow night.\u00c2\u00a0 All\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good, so far.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather is a bit unsettle now but forecast show clearing early next week.\u00c2\u00a0 May work out just fine for their summit bid.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 6, 2014 First full day in the Valley is complete.\u00c2\u00a0 It was spent doing their first acclimatization hike up to the Observatory.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about a 3000 vertical foot gain, which is about perfect.\u00c2\u00a0 About 2 hours up.\u00c2\u00a0 Terskol is at just over 7000 feet so that helps a lot, too.\u00c2\u00a0 In bed now with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elbrus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12338,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions\/12338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}