{"id":15512,"date":"2016-07-22T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T18:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=15512"},"modified":"2016-07-22T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T18:58:31","slug":"elbrus-team-in-position-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/22\/elbrus\/elbrus-team-in-position-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elbrus Team In Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 22, 2016<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-15512 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\/2016\/07\/image1.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[15512]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Training day. (Mike Hamill)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-15513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image1-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image1-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image1-45x45.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-1-15513'>\n\t\t\t\tTraining day. (Mike Hamill)\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\/2016\/07\/ima2ge1.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[15512]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ima2ge1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Hike to the observatory. (Mike Hamill)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-15514\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ima2ge1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ima2ge1-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ima2ge1-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ima2ge1-45x45.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-1-15514'>\n\t\t\t\tHike to the observatory. (Mike Hamill)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Time to catch up with Mike Hamill and crew over in Russia.\u00c2\u00a0 When Mike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on the trip, things usually go smoothly and this is again the case.\u00c2\u00a0 No hiccups with the flight down to Mineralnye Vody and the transfer up to the Baksan Valley.\u00c2\u00a0 With any big mountain you need some time to acclimate and a little technique refresher is never a bad idea, either.\u00c2\u00a0 Both are now a wrap.\u00c2\u00a0 A hike to the local observatory on the slopes of Elbrus and another day spent getting some skills review filled their first two days in the Valley.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to head onto the mountain and get into position to take a shot at Elbrus.\u00c2\u00a0 Team wants 2 nights at the high hut to further their acclimatization before taking the shot.\u00c2\u00a0 Goals now are to continue to stay healthy and hope they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been living right and that good weather will greet them the morning of their summit attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 22, 2016 Time to catch up with Mike Hamill and crew over in Russia.\u00c2\u00a0 When Mike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on the trip, things usually go smoothly and this is again the case.\u00c2\u00a0 No hiccups with the flight down to Mineralnye Vody and the transfer up to the Baksan Valley.\u00c2\u00a0 With any big mountain you need some time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15512","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\/15512","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=15512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15515,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15512\/revisions\/15515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}