{"id":16857,"date":"2017-02-19T21:11:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T05:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=16857"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:13:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T05:13:15","slug":"aconcagua-team-at-c3-in-position-for-summit-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/19\/aconcagua\/aconcagua-team-at-c3-in-position-for-summit-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Aconcagua Team at C3 in Position for Summit Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 19, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Mike and crew have been busy and productive up on Aconcagua.\u00c2\u00a0 A nasty little storm rolled into C2 the other day, but all was weathered without incident. They carried yesterday up to C3 and made the move today.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather could not be a whole lot better, and the crew is trying to get as much food, drink and rest as possible this afternoon and tonight.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16858\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/c3_jonathan_farnsworth.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16857]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16858\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16858\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/c3_jonathan_farnsworth-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/c3_jonathan_farnsworth-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/c3_jonathan_farnsworth-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/c3_jonathan_farnsworth-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/c3_jonathan_farnsworth-940x629.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/c3_jonathan_farnsworth-620x415.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/c3_jonathan_farnsworth-195x131.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/c3_jonathan_farnsworth.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aconcagua Camp 3 (photo: Jonathan Farnsworth)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They want to take advantage of no precipitation and very minimal wind right now.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it stays that way for a while but maybe it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.\u00c2\u00a0 Climbing conditions are simply too good to pass up right now.\u00c2\u00a0 Plan is to make their summit attempt in the morning.\u00c2\u00a0 That should give them good weather for the climb and descent but also good weather the following day to make their retreat back to base camp on the Horcones Valley side of the mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the plan, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the goal.<\/p>\n<p>What do they say?&#8230; Luck is when opportunity meets preparedness, right?<\/p>\n<p>Phil Erhsler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 19, 2017 Mike and crew have been busy and productive up on Aconcagua.\u00c2\u00a0 A nasty little storm rolled into C2 the other day, but all was weathered without incident. They carried yesterday up to C3 and made the move today.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather could not be a whole lot better, and the crew is trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aconcagua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16857","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=16857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16861,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16857\/revisions\/16861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}