{"id":11244,"date":"2013-11-15T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T23:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=11244"},"modified":"2013-11-15T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T23:19:39","slug":"its-ecuador-volcanoes-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/15\/ecuador-volcanoes\/its-ecuador-volcanoes-season\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Ecuador Volcanoes Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 15, 2013<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11244 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='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-13.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[11244]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-13-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-13-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-13-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-13-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-13-45x45.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-1-11246'>\n\t\t\t\tThe team on the equator.\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='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-11.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[11244]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-11-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-11-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-11-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-11-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-11-45x45.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-1-11245'>\n\t\t\t\tHiking at Cuicocha. (Luke Reilly)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Ecuador season is off and running.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Senior Guide, Luke Reilly is at the helm.\u00c2\u00a0 As always, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be working with my friend of 3 decades, Romulo Cardenas.<\/p>\n<p>The entire team arrived late yesterday and spent their first night at the Hacienda Guachala.\u00c2\u00a0 Since everyone and their luggage got in without issue, they headed to Otavalo this morning, passing the equator and getting back into the northern hemisphere.\u00c2\u00a0 With lots of available time today, a first acclimatization hike around Cuicocha, a local crater lake, was in order.\u00c2\u00a0 Staying tonight at the Hotel Otavalo, eating pizza in town and squeezing in a visit to a local weaver friend, Jose Cotacache.\u00c2\u00a0 The famous Otavalan market is tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 My guess is that more than a few Christmas presents are going to get purchased.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off to a good start.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 15, 2013 Ecuador season is off and running.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Senior Guide, Luke Reilly is at the helm.\u00c2\u00a0 As always, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be working with my friend of 3 decades, Romulo Cardenas. The entire team arrived late yesterday and spent their first night at the Hacienda Guachala.\u00c2\u00a0 Since everyone and their luggage got in without issue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecuador-volcanoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11247,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11244\/revisions\/11247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}