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Greg’s Vinson team members are on their way home. This trip is over. Greg sent me this final report on Saturday:<\/p>\n
From: Greg Vernovage Phil,<\/em><\/p>\n Sitting on the IL-76 back to Punta Arenas. It’s getting warm and the team is beginning to shed s couple layers as usual. I wanted to shoot a quick note to you and all of our followers about the great climb of Vinson we just had.<\/em><\/p>\n The team came together great and worked their butts off to get in position for the warmest summit day I have ever had on Vinson! From the first day I arrived in Punta Arenas and then Union Glacier, I had been warned of the crazy weather patterns the mountain had been experiencing this year. For the first time, I was in danger of spending New Years at Union Glacier. Instead, this team spent New Years counting down on the twin otter! Pilots included, this was a treat!<\/em><\/p>\n The team set up camp at Base Camp and Camp 1 to give you an idea of how they were ready to work.<\/em><\/p>\n We singled to Camp 1 and after a rest day, carry day and reports of two good weather days in a row, there was no holding us back. We powered up the fixed lines and made High Camp.<\/em><\/p>\n Zero hesitation and no doubt, the summit to ourselves!<\/em><\/p>\n Like I always say, New Years on the Ice is pretty special. Congratulations to the 2015 Vinson Team and especially to our to Teammates that completed the 7 Summits on this trip.<\/em><\/p>\n – Greg Vernovage<\/em><\/p>\n Back on the Ice, Austin and team are already at Camp 1.\u00c2\u00a0 All’s good.<\/p>\n Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 10, 2016 Greg’s Vinson team members are on their way home. This trip is over. Greg sent me this final report on Saturday: From: Greg Vernovage Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 7:50 PM Subject: Pretty sweet climb! Phil, Sitting on the IL-76 back to Punta Arenas. It’s getting warm and the team is beginning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14737","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14737"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14747,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14737\/revisions\/14747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 7:50 PM
\nSubject: Pretty sweet climb!<\/em><\/p>\n