{"id":185,"date":"2010-01-08T08:35:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=185"},"modified":"2010-01-08T08:35:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T16:35:59","slug":"vinson-team-back-at-patriot-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/08\/vinson-antarctica\/vinson-team-back-at-patriot-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson Team Back At Patriot Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 8, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Must be beginner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s luck but, regardless, George and his crew are certainly having a run of good luck.\u00c2\u00a0 After a 100% successful summit, they were able to descend to Vinson base camp on the 7th in good weather.\u00c2\u00a0 And there was no stopping there.\u00c2\u00a0 An hour flight and everyone was back at the Patriot Hills.\u00c2\u00a0 The game is pretty much over.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all up to ALE, the flight service, to get the gang off the Ice and back to Punta Arenas.\u00c2\u00a0 They certainly have done a great job for IMG this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Our November climb was in and out within 24 hours of schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 If the good luck continues, the team will be flying north on the 10th.\u00c2\u00a0 And ALE is hoping to make flights to and off the Ice even more predictable next year.\u00c2\u00a0 The Patriot Hills camp is being moved to the Union Glacier.\u00c2\u00a0 The ice runway at that location is orientated more north\/south which everyone expects to make the flying easier.\u00c2\u00a0 This new development has us excited about next season\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Vinson programs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"503\" height=\"377\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"The IL76 the team's waiting for. \" title=\"The IL76 the team's waiting for. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/photos\/vinson\/tf_vinson3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll post one final blog for the Vinson season when George, Eric, Helena and crew head to Punta aboard ALE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s IL76.\u00c2\u00a0 George and team made Vinson look easy.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not.\u00c2\u00a0 A little luck combined with lots of planning and good people just made it look that way.\u00c2\u00a0 Super, super job!!<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 8, 2010 Must be beginner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s luck but, regardless, George and his crew are certainly having a run of good luck.\u00c2\u00a0 After a 100% successful summit, they were able to descend to Vinson base camp on the 7th in good weather.\u00c2\u00a0 And there was no stopping there.\u00c2\u00a0 An hour flight and everyone was back at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vinson-antarctica","tag-snow-anchors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","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=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}