{"id":15276,"date":"2016-06-17T16:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T00:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=15276"},"modified":"2016-06-17T16:18:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T00:18:47","slug":"ski-elbrus-team-has-eyes-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/17\/elbrus\/ski-elbrus-team-has-eyes-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ski Elbrus Team Has Eyes On Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 17, 2016<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15277\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Riding-up-the-trams-Viki-Tracey.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[15276]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15277\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Riding-up-the-trams-Viki-Tracey.jpg\" alt=\"Riding up the trams (Viki Tracey)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Riding-up-the-trams-Viki-Tracey.jpg 800w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Riding-up-the-trams-Viki-Tracey-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Riding-up-the-trams-Viki-Tracey-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Riding-up-the-trams-Viki-Tracey-620x465.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Riding-up-the-trams-Viki-Tracey-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riding up the trams (Viki Tracey)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Mainer called in today from about 13,000 ft on Elbrus to let us know the team was well and settled into a small hut about 1.5 hours above the top of the Elbrus ski area.\u00c2\u00a0 Folks with a little knowledge of the Elbrus climb will know that the area at the top of the highest single chair lift is called The Barrels.\u00c2\u00a0 The old, historic Priutt (hut) used for decades was located about 1.5 hours above The Barrels.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a large, 3-story building which burned to the ground in 1998 (I believe).<\/p>\n<p>Our team will use tomorrow as another acclimatization day and go for a 2-3 hour hike up to a spot called the Pastohov Rocks.\u00c2\u00a0 Saturday night will be again spent at the small hut and hopefully the mountain gods say yes on Sunday morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather is everything now.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 17, 2016 &nbsp; Aaron Mainer called in today from about 13,000 ft on Elbrus to let us know the team was well and settled into a small hut about 1.5 hours above the top of the Elbrus ski area.\u00c2\u00a0 Folks with a little knowledge of the Elbrus climb will know that the area at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15276","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\/15276","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=15276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15279,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15276\/revisions\/15279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}