{"id":6740,"date":"2012-04-14T19:42:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T03:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=6740"},"modified":"2012-04-14T19:42:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T03:42:31","slug":"make-way-for-the-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/14\/annapurna-iv\/make-way-for-the-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Way For The Goats!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 14, 2012<\/p>\n<p>IMG guide Eben Reckord reports that the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first few days of trekking have gone well, and they are now in Bradang (2850m).\u00c2\u00a0 From Kathmandu the team drove west on the Pohkara road, a beautiful drive through central Nepal.\u00c2\u00a0 When they reached the Marsyangdi River Valley, they turned to the north, to Besisahar.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, from there, the road has been extended a bit further to Bulbule, which is now the trailhead.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday the team got a nice view of Manaslu.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6740 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\/2012\/04\/Day-one-of-the-Annapurna-trek.-Photo-by-Eben-Reckord.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[6740]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Day-one-of-the-Annapurna-trek.-Photo-by-Eben-Reckord-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6741\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6741'>\n\t\t\t\tDay one of the Annapurna trek. (Photo by Eben Reckord)\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\/2012\/04\/Road-construction-Photo-by-Eben-Reckord.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[6740]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Road-construction-Photo-by-Eben-Reckord-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6742\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6742'>\n\t\t\t\tActual road construction (Photo by Eben Reckord)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Eben says:\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it has been raining a ton in the afternoons and evenings, but we&#8217;ve managed for the most part to stay dry and out of the rain.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 There has been a\u00c2\u00a0 lot of movement on the trail with donkeys, sheep, brahma bulls, chickens, mongooses and monkeys.\u00c2\u00a0 Today is Nepali New Year, so there are a lot of local people traveling to visit friends and celebrate. At one point we had to get out of the way of a whole herd of goats that was being herded down the trail!\u00c2\u00a0 Work continues on the road up to Chame.\u00c2\u00a0 Two days back we were asked to stay put by two soldiers while dynamite blasts cleared more of the road across the valley.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been an exciting walk in so far.\u00c2\u00a0 We hope to get to Humre tomorrow and base camp in just a few days.\u00c2\u00a0 The team is all happy and healthy and ready to get climbing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 14, 2012 IMG guide Eben Reckord reports that the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first few days of trekking have gone well, and they are now in Bradang (2850m).\u00c2\u00a0 From Kathmandu the team drove west on the Pohkara road, a beautiful drive through central Nepal.\u00c2\u00a0 When they reached the Marsyangdi River Valley, they turned to the north, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annapurna-iv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740","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=6740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6746,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions\/6746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}