{"id":142,"date":"2009-10-09T14:10:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T22:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=142"},"modified":"2010-03-26T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T21:32:51","slug":"bhutan-trek-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/09\/bhutan\/bhutan-trek-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhutan Trek Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 9, 2009<\/p>\n<p>We heard from Bhutan trek leader, Mike Hamill, this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 The team reached Chomolhari base camp after 3 days of trekking.\u00c2\u00a0 The mountain, Chomolhari, is about 24,000 ft and the camp site has an unobstructed view right up to the peak.\u00c2\u00a0 Both sunrise and sunset views from there are spectacular.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"310\" width=\"414\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/photos\/bhutan\/bhutan3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Camp is also alongside a river and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hoot to watch the yak cooling themselves in the river.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple were long days and some rain didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but everyone looked after one another and got the job done.\u00c2\u00a0 Same thing happened when I was first there 4 years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Rained like crazy for 3 days and then we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see another drop of rain for the rest of the trek.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike said weather is now improving and high pressure appears to be building.\u00c2\u00a0 Just what the doctor ordered.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow, they head for Nyile La.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a pass at very close to 16,000 ft.\u00c2\u00a0 It will be a long day but an exciting one.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll likely encounter some new snow en route.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement of Lingshi at 13,200 ft. is their destination after crossing the pass.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone is doing well and ready for clear skies and the spectacular views that brings.\u00c2\u00a0 Likely some blue sheep to see, also.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/bhutan.shtml\">More on our Bhutan Treks<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><font size=\"2\"><font size=\"2\"><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Ashford-WA\/International-Mountain-Guides\/61170095830\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"21\" width=\"21\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beamups.com\/BeamupsWeb\/images\/facebook-logo1.png\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 9, 2009 We heard from Bhutan trek leader, Mike Hamill, this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 The team reached Chomolhari base camp after 3 days of trekking.\u00c2\u00a0 The mountain, Chomolhari, is about 24,000 ft and the camp site has an unobstructed view right up to the peak.\u00c2\u00a0 Both sunrise and sunset views from there are spectacular. Camp is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhutan","tag-snow-anchors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","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=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}