{"id":15295,"date":"2016-06-22T07:55:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T15:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=15295"},"modified":"2016-06-22T07:55:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T15:55:53","slug":"ski-elbrus-team-enjoying-some-down-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/22\/elbrus\/ski-elbrus-team-enjoying-some-down-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Ski Elbrus Team Enjoying Some Down Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 22, 2016<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15296\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6600.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[15295]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15296\" class=\"wp-image-15296 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6600.jpg\" alt=\"Any day on skis is a good day. \" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6600.jpg 320w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6600-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6600-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Any day on skis is a good day.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Finding the right window of weather, wind and snow conditions to skin up and ski down Elbrus takes a certain amount of planning, persistence and a lot of luck.\u00c2\u00a0 This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s June ski trip had enough of all three.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only were our skiers able to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcskin up\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Elbrus but snow conditions also allowed for a fun descent.\u00c2\u00a0 Half our team skied and half stayed with the crampons and climbed but having 3 guides on board allowed members that choice.<\/p>\n<p>Now the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back in the valley and enjoying some sightseeing and hiking.\u00c2\u00a0 The Caucasus is truly a spectacular mountain range, more so than I think a lot of folks understand.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take advantage of everything before heading off to Moscow on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, where the adventure will continue.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 22, 2016 Finding the right window of weather, wind and snow conditions to skin up and ski down Elbrus takes a certain amount of planning, persistence and a lot of luck.\u00c2\u00a0 This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s June ski trip had enough of all three.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only were our skiers able to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcskin up\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Elbrus but snow conditions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elbrus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295","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=15295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15299,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295\/revisions\/15299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}