{"id":13349,"date":"2015-02-09T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=13349"},"modified":"2015-02-09T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T20:08:07","slug":"another-kili-team-off-to-a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/09\/kilimanjaro\/another-kili-team-off-to-a-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Kili Team Off To A Good Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 9, 2015<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13350\" style=\"width: 553px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kili-Team-2.9.15.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[13349]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13350\" class=\" wp-image-13350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kili-Team-2.9.15.jpg\" alt=\"Mike &amp; Kilimanjaro Team\" width=\"543\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kili-Team-2.9.15.jpg 640w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kili-Team-2.9.15-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kili-Team-2.9.15-620x465.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kili-Team-2.9.15-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike &amp; Kilimanjaro Team<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off!\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Senior Guide, Mike Haft, collected his Kilimanjaro team over the weekend and got them ready to climb the mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 They rendezvoused at the Keys Hotel in Moshi, did all their gear checks, saw a bit of the town and got ready to go for a little walk.\u00c2\u00a0 Each climber has a duffel with 15 kg of their personal gear which gets sent with one of our porters.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have access to that bag each evening and they carry only the gear needed for that day \u00e2\u20ac\u201c rain jacket\/pants, water, snacks, etc.<\/p>\n<p>They put in their first day on the trail today.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 11 hours later than Seattle time in Tanzania.\u00c2\u00a0 So, when we hear from the team in the morning (our time), they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already completed their day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s activities.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike called from Machame Camp to let us know that the first day went off without a hitch.\u00c2\u00a0 A 4,000 vertical foot gain today, ending at 10,000 feet.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work and everyone took it in stride.<\/p>\n<p>They should wake up to great views of Kilimanjaro tomorrow and will have those views from now on, assuming no clouds, of course.\u00c2\u00a0 A little less altitude gain tomorrow and another 2,5000 ft. increase in sleeping altitude.\u00c2\u00a0 No hurry, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got 6 days to reach the summit.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 9, 2015 And they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off!\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Senior Guide, Mike Haft, collected his Kilimanjaro team over the weekend and got them ready to climb the mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 They rendezvoused at the Keys Hotel in Moshi, did all their gear checks, saw a bit of the town and got ready to go for a little walk.\u00c2\u00a0 Each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349","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=13349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13351,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions\/13351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}