{"id":17813,"date":"2017-09-19T10:23:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=17813"},"modified":"2017-09-19T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:08:17","slug":"kili-team-celebrating-summit-before-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/19\/kilimanjaro\/kili-team-celebrating-summit-before-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Team Celebrating Summit Before Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 19, 2017<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-17813 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\/2017\/09\/Hiking-to-Barafu-Camp-Dustin-Balderach.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[17813]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hiking-to-Barafu-Camp-Dustin-Balderach-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-17814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hiking-to-Barafu-Camp-Dustin-Balderach-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hiking-to-Barafu-Camp-Dustin-Balderach-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hiking-to-Barafu-Camp-Dustin-Balderach-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hiking-to-Barafu-Camp-Dustin-Balderach-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-1-17814'>\n\t\t\t\tHiking to Barafu Camp. (Dustin Balderach)\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\/2017\/09\/Team-on-the-summit-Dustin-Balderach.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[17813]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Team-on-the-summit-Dustin-Balderach-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-17815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Team-on-the-summit-Dustin-Balderach-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Team-on-the-summit-Dustin-Balderach-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Team-on-the-summit-Dustin-Balderach-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Team-on-the-summit-Dustin-Balderach-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-1-17815'>\n\t\t\t\tTeam on the summit! (Dustin Balderach)\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\/2017\/09\/Descendig-from-summit-Dustin-Balderach.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[17813]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Descendig-from-summit-Dustin-Balderach-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-17816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Descendig-from-summit-Dustin-Balderach-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Descendig-from-summit-Dustin-Balderach-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Descendig-from-summit-Dustin-Balderach-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Descendig-from-summit-Dustin-Balderach-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-1-17816'>\n\t\t\t\tDescending from summit. (Dustin Balderach)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>IMG Guide Dustin Balderach checked in from the hotel in Moshi, reporting all is well.\u00c2\u00a0 He and his team finished up the descent of their climb in good form, took some celebratory photos at the Mweka Gate, then jumped in the awaiting 4WD vehicles and we&#8217;re back at the hotel in no time.<\/p>\n<p>Showers were first on the agenda, beers and cokes were a close second.\u00c2\u00a0 They were heading to our traditional Celebration Dinner when Dustin called. It sounds like this team absolutely crushed the climb.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, they&#8217;ll head to Arusha to catch their flight to the Serengeti. It&#8217;s time to kick back, relax and soak in the wildlife. Next check in from Dustin will be from the Serengeti.<\/p>\n<p>Tye Chapman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 19, 2017 &nbsp; IMG Guide Dustin Balderach checked in from the hotel in Moshi, reporting all is well.\u00c2\u00a0 He and his team finished up the descent of their climb in good form, took some celebratory photos at the Mweka Gate, then jumped in the awaiting 4WD vehicles and we&#8217;re back at the hotel in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813","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=17813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17818,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813\/revisions\/17818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}