{"id":18592,"date":"2018-01-09T17:01:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T01:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=18592"},"modified":"2018-01-09T17:01:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T01:01:04","slug":"getting-ready-for-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/09\/aconcagua\/getting-ready-for-base-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for Base Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 9, 2018<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18593\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Crew-Nickel-Wood.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[18592]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18593\" class=\"wp-image-18593 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Crew-Nickel-Wood-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Crew (Nickel Wood)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Crew-Nickel-Wood-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Crew-Nickel-Wood-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Crew-Nickel-Wood-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Crew-Nickel-Wood-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Crew-Nickel-Wood-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/The-Crew-Nickel-Wood-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crew (Nickel Wood)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rained like crazy in Mendoza last night.\u00c2\u00a0 Very odd.\u00c2\u00a0 Good news is that the team had no problem this morning and made the drive up to Penitentes.\u00c2\u00a0 One night will be spent there getting loads ready for the mules and enjoying one last hotel night.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow, the 3 day hike to base camp begins.\u00c2\u00a0 Mules carry all the heavy stuff, leaving team members able to enjoy the walk carrying only light packs.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good thing.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a way to acclimate.<\/p>\n<p>No problems on Aconcagua.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 9, 2018 Rained like crazy in Mendoza last night.\u00c2\u00a0 Very odd.\u00c2\u00a0 Good news is that the team had no problem this morning and made the drive up to Penitentes.\u00c2\u00a0 One night will be spent there getting loads ready for the mules and enjoying one last hotel night.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow, the 3 day hike to base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18592","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\/18592","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=18592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18594,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18592\/revisions\/18594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}