{"id":18586,"date":"2018-01-08T17:11:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T01:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=18586"},"modified":"2018-01-08T17:11:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T01:11:21","slug":"aconcagua-team-3-ready-for-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/08\/aconcagua\/aconcagua-team-3-ready-for-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Aconcagua Team 3 Ready for Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 8, 2018<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18587\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Guide-Martin-Lucero-with-Permits-\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAlmost-in-Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122-Rikki-Dunn.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[18586]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18587\" class=\"wp-image-18587 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Guide-Martin-Lucero-with-Permits-\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAlmost-in-Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122-Rikki-Dunn-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG Guide Martin Lucero with Permits \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAlmost in Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (Rikki Dunn)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMG Guide Martin Lucero with Permits \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAlmost in Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (Rikki Dunn)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s busy season in South America still.\u00c2\u00a0 One Mexico, one Ecuador, one Vinson, one Patagonia trek and two Aconcagua trips have already been completed BUT one MORE Mexico, one Ecuador, one Vinson, one Patagonia trek and three Aconcagua trips still remain.\u00c2\u00a0 Busy is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>So, we wanted to check in with Team 3 on Aconcagua, led by Nickel Wood and assisted by Martin Lucero and Rikki Dunn.\u00c2\u00a0 Guides arrived early and shopped\/packed food and gear.\u00c2\u00a0 The climber team all arrived by 7 January.\u00c2\u00a0 Climbers have been getting over their jet lag, going through gear checks, out shopping for a few more \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsnacks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for the trail and generally enjoying the city of Mendoza.\u00c2\u00a0 Big team dinner tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh yeah, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always that issue of securing permits.\u00c2\u00a0 As Nickel emailed today \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153climbers and gear are accounted for and permits are secured.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all the big preliminary details have been taken care of and team is ready to head out tomorrow for Penitentes.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try to squeeze a team photo out of them for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 8, 2018 &nbsp; It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s busy season in South America still.\u00c2\u00a0 One Mexico, one Ecuador, one Vinson, one Patagonia trek and two Aconcagua trips have already been completed BUT one MORE Mexico, one Ecuador, one Vinson, one Patagonia trek and three Aconcagua trips still remain.\u00c2\u00a0 Busy is a good thing. So, we wanted to check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18586","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\/18586","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=18586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18591,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions\/18591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}