{"id":19582,"date":"2018-07-19T15:10:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T23:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=19582"},"modified":"2018-07-19T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T23:10:57","slug":"elbrus-team-acclimatizing-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/19\/elbrus\/elbrus-team-acclimatizing-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Elbrus Team Acclimatizing &#038; Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 19, 2018<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-19582 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\/2018\/07\/IMG_3790a.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[19582]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_3790a-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_3790a-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_3790a-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_3790a-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_3790a-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-1-19584'>\n\t\t\t\tThe team. (Sasha Sak)\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\/2018\/07\/IMG_3778a.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[19582]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_3778a-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19583\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_3778a-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_3778a-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_3778a-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_3778a-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-1-19583'>\n\t\t\t\tBrushing up on the cramponing techniques. (Sasha Sak)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Reasonable weather yesterday to get in some more acclimatization and also do some technique review on the lower slopes of Elbrus.\u00c2\u00a0 Team is asleep now in the village of Terskol and looking forward to heading up to the hut on Elbrus tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple of gondola rides, a bit of hiking and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re there.\u00c2\u00a0 At least two nights at the hut before taking a summit shot.\u00c2\u00a0 You just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shortcut acclimatization!\u00c2\u00a0 Elbrus isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t technically difficult but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a demanding summit day.\u00c2\u00a0 Best to go in with our guns loaded, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan and Sasha report group is strong, healthy and getting along well.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcprep\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is done.\u00c2\u00a0 A little luck weather-wise about 3 days from now would really be nice.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll let you know how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 19, 2018 Reasonable weather yesterday to get in some more acclimatization and also do some technique review on the lower slopes of Elbrus.\u00c2\u00a0 Team is asleep now in the village of Terskol and looking forward to heading up to the hut on Elbrus tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple of gondola rides, a bit of hiking and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19582","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\/19582","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=19582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19585,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582\/revisions\/19585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}