{"id":14496,"date":"2015-11-15T22:10:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T06:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=14496"},"modified":"2015-11-16T09:48:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:48:26","slug":"mexico-ecuador-team-off-to-a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/15\/mexican-volcanoes\/mexico-ecuador-team-off-to-a-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico &#038; Ecuador Teams Off To A Good Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 15, 2015<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14496 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\/2015\/11\/IMG_2762.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[14496]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2762-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Ecuador team hiking Fuya Fuya\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-14497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2762-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2762-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2762-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2762-45x45.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-1-14497'>\n\t\t\t\tEcuador team hiking Fuya Fuya\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\/2015\/11\/IMG_3793.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[14496]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3793-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Team Mexico\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-14498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3793-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3793-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3793-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_3793-45x45.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-1-14498'>\n\t\t\t\tTeam Mexico\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a good \u00e2\u20ac\u0153IMG weekend\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Mexico and Ecuador.\u00c2\u00a0 Austin Shannon and Dallas Glass met their crew, without issue, in Mexico City <span data-term=\"goog_309844220\">on Saturday<\/span>.\u00c2\u00a0 They headed out of town this morning for their first objection \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Ixtaccihuatl.\u00c2\u00a0 Went for an acclimatization hike today above Cortez Pass and the guides report they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a strong team.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take it.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much the same word coming from our Ecuador team.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Luke Reilly and Romulo Cardenas pulled their crew together late <span data-term=\"goog_309844221\">Thursday<\/span> evening.\u00c2\u00a0 <span data-term=\"goog_309844222\">Friday<\/span> was a super fun walking tour of Old Town with Romulo relaying more information than you can imagine.\u00c2\u00a0 They then drove north, past the equator, to the town of Otavalo, with a lunch stop at this great \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclocals\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 spot along the highway.\u00c2\u00a0 Locro, an Ecuadorian soup of potato with cheese, is their specialty.\u00c2\u00a0 Visited the famous Otavalo market <span data-term=\"goog_309844223\">Saturday<\/span> morning and then hiked Fuya Fuya. It&#8217;s a nice first hike with an interesting little rock step at the end. The group loved it.<\/p>\n<p>They finished the day with a visit to the village of Peguche and visited with a local weaver friend of ours. \u00c2\u00a0Dinner was at the Hacienda Pinsaqui. \u00c2\u00a0Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s schedule called for a climb up Imbabura and then down to a new hacienda near the town of Cayambe. Team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing great.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 15, 2015 &nbsp; It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a good \u00e2\u20ac\u0153IMG weekend\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Mexico and Ecuador.\u00c2\u00a0 Austin Shannon and Dallas Glass met their crew, without issue, in Mexico City on Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0 They headed out of town this morning for their first objection \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Ixtaccihuatl.\u00c2\u00a0 Went for an acclimatization hike today above Cortez Pass and the guides report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecuador-volcanoes","category-mexican-volcanoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14496","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=14496"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14508,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14496\/revisions\/14508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}