{"id":22713,"date":"2019-07-17T17:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T01:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=22713"},"modified":"2019-07-17T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T01:52:26","slug":"elbrus-acclimatization-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/17\/elbrus\/elbrus-acclimatization-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Elbrus Acclimatization Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 17, 2019<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22714\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Jonathan-Schrock.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[22713]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22714\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Jonathan-Schrock-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Jonathan-Schrock-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Jonathan-Schrock-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Jonathan-Schrock-940x1253.jpg 940w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Jonathan-Schrock-620x827.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Jonathan-Schrock-146x195.jpg 146w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Jonathan-Schrock.jpg 1875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Elbrus team has been busy on their acclimatization hikes around Terskol and above the Cheget ski area (Jonathan Schrock)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Always nice to have everyone in one spot with all their luggage and actually starting a climb.\u00c2\u00a0 We love sightseeing in St. Petersburg but it feels right to put on the hiking shoes and start prepping oneself for the actually climbing.\u00c2\u00a0 For now, that means acclimatizating.\u00c2\u00a0 The terrain around Terskol is perfect for just that.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a little \u00e2\u20ac\u02dciffy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 but not bad for the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hikes.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, weather\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s often a big \u00e2\u20ac\u02dciffy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in the Caucasus.\u00c2\u00a0 All that really matters is that summit day.<\/p>\n<p>Team will push higher tomorrow and get up onto the glaciers at the mountain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s base and do a bit of review and just plain further enhancing of their adjustment to the altitude.\u00c2\u00a0 Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shortcut the acclimatization process.<\/p>\n<p>All is quite good on Mt. Elbrus!!<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 17, 2019 Always nice to have everyone in one spot with all their luggage and actually starting a climb.\u00c2\u00a0 We love sightseeing in St. Petersburg but it feels right to put on the hiking shoes and start prepping oneself for the actually climbing.\u00c2\u00a0 For now, that means acclimatizating.\u00c2\u00a0 The terrain around Terskol is perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22713","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\/22713","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=22713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22716,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22713\/revisions\/22716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}