{"id":15544,"date":"2016-07-25T08:56:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T16:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=15544"},"modified":"2016-07-25T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T16:56:02","slug":"elbrus-team-off-to-the-banya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/25\/elbrus\/elbrus-team-off-to-the-banya\/","title":{"rendered":"Elbrus Team Off To The Banya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 25, 2016<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-15544 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\/Elbrus-summit-day-Mike-Hamill.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[15544]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elbrus-summit-day-Mike-Hamill-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Elbrus summit day. (Mike Hamill)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-15545\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elbrus-summit-day-Mike-Hamill-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elbrus-summit-day-Mike-Hamill-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elbrus-summit-day-Mike-Hamill-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elbrus-summit-day-Mike-Hamill-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-1-15545'>\n\t\t\t\tElbrus summit day.  (Mike Hamill)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><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\/Elbrus-Mike-Hamill.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[15544]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elbrus-Mike-Hamill-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A little windy on Elbrus! (Mike Hamill)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-15546\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elbrus-Mike-Hamill-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elbrus-Mike-Hamill-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elbrus-Mike-Hamill-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Elbrus-Mike-Hamill-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-1-15546'>\n\t\t\t\tA little windy on Elbrus! (Mike Hamill)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>More good news received from Mike and crew over on Elbrus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Phil,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>We just got back down to the Valley. The team is psyched. Apparently, almost no one had summited since the 15th and today winds had to be 100mph on the summit so wouldn&#8217;t have gone, so we were lucky to sneak it in yesterday when we could. The team is getting cleaned up and we&#8217;ll head out for lunch and then Russian banya (sauna) \u00c2\u00a0this afternoon. Here are a few pics from the climb.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Mike<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our congratulations to Kristin, Joanne, Varun, Aaron, Randy, Anders, Danijela and Gina.\u00c2\u00a0 And, of course, our thanks to Mike, Igor and Sasha for a job well done.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple of days now of sightseeing, relaxing and hiking remain in the Baksan Valley and then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s off to Moscow.\u00c2\u00a0 All is well.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 25, 2016 More good news received from Mike and crew over on Elbrus. Phil, We just got back down to the Valley. The team is psyched. Apparently, almost no one had summited since the 15th and today winds had to be 100mph on the summit so wouldn&#8217;t have gone, so we were lucky to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15544","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\/15544","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=15544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15547,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15544\/revisions\/15547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}