{"id":1169,"date":"2010-08-12T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T17:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2010-08-12T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T19:03:01","slug":"the-zone-of-weird-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/12\/kilimanjaro\/the-zone-of-weird-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zone Of Weird Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 12, 2010<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1171\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=-3.06689,37.27648&amp;ll=-3.06689,37.27648&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=12&amp;om=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1171\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1171  \" title=\"Kili Team At Shira Camp\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kili-Screen-Print-Shira1-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy&#39;s carrying a SPOT GPS Messenger - check out their current location (Green Arrow)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG guide Andy Politz reported by sat phone that that the team members are all doing well.\u00c2\u00a0 Today they climbed from Machame Camp to Shira Camp (about 12,500 feet) via a steep section of trail that winds up a ridge to the Shira Plateau.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, they had no rain but cloudy skies kept them cool as they emerged from the forest zone and climbed up into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/photos\/kilimanjaro\/lower-climb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[1169]\">&#8220;the zone of weird plants&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Shira Plateau is an immense remnant of ancient lava flows from the now extinct Shira volcano (Kilimanjaro is composed of three volcanoes, Shira, Mawenzi, and Kibo).\u00c2\u00a0 At this point the team are above most of the vegetation on the mountain, with only occasional lobelia, groundsel, and other plants remaining.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to see these vegetation zones if you click on the Google map photos here, with the precise camp locations transmitted by Andy&#8217;s SPOT GPS Messenger.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/kilimanjaro.shtml\">More On Kilimanjaro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 12, 2010 IMG guide Andy Politz reported by sat phone that that the team members are all doing well.\u00c2\u00a0 Today they climbed from Machame Camp to Shira Camp (about 12,500 feet) via a steep section of trail that winds up a ridge to the Shira Plateau.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, they had no rain but cloudy skies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","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=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}