{"id":186,"date":"2010-01-11T08:52:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=186"},"modified":"2010-01-11T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:52:32","slug":"vinson-team-closebut-no-cigar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/11\/vinson-antarctica\/vinson-team-closebut-no-cigar\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson Team &#8211; Close&#8230;But No Cigar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 11, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Vinson leader, George Dunn, called in Sunday, Jan 10, and reported that while weather was quite good, winds weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite low enough to bring in the IL 76.\u00c2\u00a0 The ice runway at Patriot Hills runs pretty much east\/west.\u00c2\u00a0 To fly in or out, we need a combination of reasonable visibility, reasonably low winds and not too much snow on the runway.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re close,but when it comes to safety, close isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite good enough.\u00c2\u00a0 The flight service, ALE, is quite conservative and rightfully so.\u00c2\u00a0 They have decades of experience at running a safe operation in Antarctica and we know they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll pull the trigger when conditions are right.\u00c2\u00a0 George reported that the team is perfectly content snacking, having a hot drink and playing cards.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re waiting for good flying weather inside a big WeatherPort tent with a floor, stove, water melt system and heater.\u00c2\u00a0 Tables and chairs complete the picture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"503\" height=\"377\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/photos\/vinson\/tf_vinson6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course the team is anxious to get home to family and friends but they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re safe, successful and patient.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve taken care of the things they could control and got up and down Vinson without a scratch.\u00c2\u00a0 Now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to enjoy the wait and let mother nature tell them when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to fly.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get out soon and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll let you know when it happens.\u00c2\u00a0 I just wonder who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s winning the card game??<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 11, 2010 Vinson leader, George Dunn, called in Sunday, Jan 10, and reported that while weather was quite good, winds weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite low enough to bring in the IL 76.\u00c2\u00a0 The ice runway at Patriot Hills runs pretty much east\/west.\u00c2\u00a0 To fly in or out, we need a combination of reasonable visibility, reasonably low [&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-186","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\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}