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<\/a>Pico de Orizaba<\/p><\/div>\n
Josh checked in this morning from Mexico.\u00c2\u00a0 The crew took their shot at the summit of Orizaba this morning but came up short.\u00c2\u00a0 We had a super tight guide to climber ratio on this trip, just over 1 to 2, but today, with the icy conditions, it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite enough.\u00c2\u00a0 All our climbers took a shot this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 One wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite feeling it after a couple of hours and returned to the high hut with one of our 3 guides.\u00c2\u00a0 Another of our climbers made a similar decision another hour or two higher as the team was just getting on the upper glacier.\u00c2\u00a0 It was icy this morning and Josh had to make the tough call.\u00c2\u00a0 1 to 5 would only have been a consideration in the most ideal of climbing conditions.\u00c2\u00a0 That wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the case today and Josh knew they had to descend together.\u00c2\u00a0 That is never an easy decision but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the type of difficult decision a guide has to make.\u00c2\u00a0 A disappointment, for sure, but everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s down with 10 fingers, 10 toes and in one piece.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re spending tonight at the Reyes compound in Tlachichuca and returning to Mexico City in the morning.<\/p>\n
On Aconcagua, Jonathan and team pushed hard in spite of wind and new snow and got into C2.\u00c2\u00a0 What a weather year on Aconcagua!\u00c2\u00a0 This was a big move for the team as there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lull in the winds forecasted for early next week and the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trying to get into position to take advantage, if it occurs.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing well and the chess game continues.<\/p>\n
Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
January 29, 2016 Josh checked in this morning from Mexico.\u00c2\u00a0 The crew took their shot at the summit of Orizaba this morning but came up short.\u00c2\u00a0 We had a super tight guide to climber ratio on this trip, just over 1 to 2, but today, with the icy conditions, it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite enough.\u00c2\u00a0 All our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aconcagua","category-mexican-volcanoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857","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=14857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14860,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857\/revisions\/14860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}