{"id":16248,"date":"2016-11-13T11:13:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=16248"},"modified":"2016-11-13T19:41:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T03:41:28","slug":"ecuador-and-mexico-teams-off-to-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/13\/mexican-volcanoes\/ecuador-and-mexico-teams-off-to-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador and Mexico Teams off to Good Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 13, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Luke reported in saying all luggage is now in hand and that everything else is going smoothly.\u00c2\u00a0 Since arriving in Otavalo, the crew\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been hiking around Cuicocha, visited a local weaver who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good friend of Romulo (and ours) and spent Saturday morning visiting the animal market as well as checking out the famous Otavalo Market after breakfast.\u00c2\u00a0 Dinner was at a beautiful hacienda about 30 mins from town.\u00c2\u00a0 Hiking Fuya Fuya is on the agenda for Sunday, with the team ending up at Papa Gayo, near the town of Cayambe, for the night. All good.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-16248 gallery-columns-3 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\/2016\/11\/ixta-team.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[16248]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ixta-team-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-16249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ixta-team-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ixta-team-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ixta-team-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ixta-team-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-1-16249'>\n\t\t\t\tIMG Mexico team\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\/2016\/11\/lago-cuicocha.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[16248]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lago-cuicocha-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-16250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lago-cuicocha-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lago-cuicocha-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lago-cuicocha-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lago-cuicocha-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-1-16250'>\n\t\t\t\tLago Cuicocha\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hacienda-pinsaqui.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[16248]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hacienda-pinsaqui-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Hacienda Pinsaqui\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-16251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hacienda-pinsaqui-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hacienda-pinsaqui-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hacienda-pinsaqui-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hacienda-pinsaqui-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-1-16251'>\n\t\t\t\tHacienda Pinsaqui\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A bit north in the country of Mexico, Austin Shannon is leading our first Mexico Volcanos trip of the season. Everyone arrived Saturday afternoon AND with all their luggage.\u00c2\u00a0 After introductions and a short team meeting at our hotel, the team headed out to their first dinner together.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off Sunday morning for the town of Amecameca and their first look at Ixta as well as their first acclimatization hike. Off to a good start.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 13, 2016 Luke reported in saying all luggage is now in hand and that everything else is going smoothly.\u00c2\u00a0 Since arriving in Otavalo, the crew\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been hiking around Cuicocha, visited a local weaver who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good friend of Romulo (and ours) and spent Saturday morning visiting the animal market as well as checking out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16248","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\/16248","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16253,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions\/16253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}