{"id":14066,"date":"2015-08-20T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=14066"},"modified":"2015-08-20T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T19:23:01","slug":"kili-climbers-getting-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/20\/kilimanjaro\/kili-climbers-getting-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Climbers Getting Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 20, 2015<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14066 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/All-smiles-after-the-Wall-00000002-e1440094768892.jpeg' rel=\"lightbox[14066]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/All-smiles-after-the-Wall-00000002-e1440094768892-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"All smiles after the Wall (Dustin Balderach)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-14068\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/All-smiles-after-the-Wall-00000002-e1440094768892-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/All-smiles-after-the-Wall-00000002-e1440094768892-130x130.jpeg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/All-smiles-after-the-Wall-00000002-e1440094768892-70x70.jpeg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/All-smiles-after-the-Wall-00000002-e1440094768892-45x45.jpeg 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-1-14068'>\n\t\t\t\tAll smiles after the Wall (Dustin Balderach)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Approaching-the-top-of-the-Wall-00000002-e1440094831379.jpeg' rel=\"lightbox[14066]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Approaching-the-top-of-the-Wall-00000002-e1440094831379-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Approaching the top of the Wall (Dustin Balderach)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-14067\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Approaching-the-top-of-the-Wall-00000002-e1440094831379-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Approaching-the-top-of-the-Wall-00000002-e1440094831379-130x130.jpeg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Approaching-the-top-of-the-Wall-00000002-e1440094831379-70x70.jpeg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Approaching-the-top-of-the-Wall-00000002-e1440094831379-45x45.jpeg 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-1-14067'>\n\t\t\t\tApproaching the top of the Wall (Dustin Balderach)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hey Greg.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m\u00c2\u00a0not really sure what else I can say beyond super strong team and great weather on Kili. Really can&#8217;t ask for much more.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The group cruised up the Barranco Wall today under beautiful clear skies this morning. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it and agreed it&#8217;s not nearly as bad as it looks. Super fun scrambling with good hand holds and no exposure!\u00c2\u00a0We had a nice break at the top of the Wall at 14,000 feet where the views were simply stunning. On our descent to Karanga Camp the clouds moved in to keep things cool.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell you what a strong fun team this is. Everyone chats all day and is very supportive of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after pulling into Karanga\u00c2\u00a0camp (13,300&#8242;)\u00c2\u00a0we had guilt free fried chicken and french fries for lunch! Then we had our summit talk in anticipation of the climb starting tomorrow night!! Everyone is very excited and now well prepared.<\/p>\n<p>After a warm, filling\u00c2\u00a0dinner in a couple hours we have our final long restful evening in the tents. Then a short 3 hour hike tomorrow morning to our high camp &#8211; Barafu, 15,200&#8242; -\u00c2\u00a0where we will eat, drink, rest and pack for the summit push. Alarms will be\u00c2\u00a0going off at 10:30pm tomorrow night!!<\/p>\n<p>The crew keeps wanting to know more about the safari but first things first&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Dustin Balderach<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 20, 2015 &nbsp; Hey Greg. I&#8217;m\u00c2\u00a0not really sure what else I can say beyond super strong team and great weather on Kili. Really can&#8217;t ask for much more.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The group cruised up the Barranco Wall today under beautiful clear skies this morning. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it and agreed it&#8217;s not nearly as bad as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14066","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\/14066","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=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14071,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions\/14071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}