{"id":7721,"date":"2012-08-12T12:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=7721"},"modified":"2012-08-12T12:34:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T20:34:10","slug":"how-to-prepare-for-the-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/12\/img-news\/how-to-prepare-for-the-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Prepare For The Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 12, 2012<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7721 gallery-columns-3 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\/08\/Summit-of-Iliniza-Sur.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[7721]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Summit-of-Iliniza-Sur-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7722\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7722'>\n\t\t\t\tSummit of Iliniza Sur.\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\/2012\/08\/Steepest-pitch-of-the-climb-via-our-variation-of-the-normal-route-Jenni-Fogle.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[7721]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Steepest-pitch-of-the-climb-via-our-variation-of-the-normal-route-Jenni-Fogle-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7724\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7724'>\n\t\t\t\tSteepest pitch of the climb via our variation of the normal route (Jenni Fogle)\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\/08\/Iliniza-Norte-from-the-climb-to-Iliniza-Sur.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[7721]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Iliniza-Norte-from-the-climb-to-Iliniza-Sur-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7723\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7723'>\n\t\t\t\tIliniza Norte from the climb to Iliniza Sur. (Jenni Fogle)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><em>IMG Guide Jenni Fogle will be having some surgery in a couple weeks&#8230;In anticipation of the surgery she and fellow IMG Guide Luke Reilly split the country for some climbing in Ecuador.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How To Prepare For The Knife<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>By Jenni Fogle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Step One:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Grab your favorite climbing partner<br \/>\nStep Two:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Determine how many days you can both take off from work without being fired<br \/>\nStep Three:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Buy plane tickets<br \/>\nStep Four:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Choose maximum possible objectives for time available<br \/>\nStep Five:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Pack<br \/>\nStep Six:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Climb<br \/>\nStep Seven:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Repeat Step Six as many times as possible.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived in Ecuador Thursday night and were on the trail to the Iliniza hut by Friday mid-day. **Got up at 3 a.m. to climb Iliniza Sur (see photos) and did a variation of the normal route (different start and lower part of the climb). We descended the normal route, headed back to Uyumbicho for the night and are heading toward Antisana this evening or tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Jenni and Luke<\/p>\n<p>[**Note: it&#8217;s nice to be acclimatized after a summer on Rainier!]<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/16\/guide-features\/how-to-make-a-mean-chicken-salad\/\" target=\"_blank\">How To Make A Mean Chicken Salad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 12, 2012 IMG Guide Jenni Fogle will be having some surgery in a couple weeks&#8230;In anticipation of the surgery she and fellow IMG Guide Luke Reilly split the country for some climbing in Ecuador. How To Prepare For The Knife By Jenni Fogle Step One:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Grab your favorite climbing partner Step Two:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Determine how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-img-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721","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=7721"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7731,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions\/7731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}