{"id":18703,"date":"2018-01-20T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=18703"},"modified":"2018-01-20T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T23:20:07","slug":"aconcagua-team-preparing-for-summit-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/20\/aconcagua\/aconcagua-team-preparing-for-summit-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Aconcagua Team Preparing for Summit Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 20, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Nickel, Rikki, Martin and crew are at C3 &#8212; high camp. A little precip today as they moved up but wind is essentially nil. Clouds and no wind actually provides a bit of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgreen house\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 effect, making camp fairly comfortable.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18704\" style=\"width: 1710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aconcagua-high-camp_peter_bilodeau.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[18703]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18704\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18704\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aconcagua-high-camp_peter_bilodeau.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1700\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aconcagua-high-camp_peter_bilodeau.jpg 1700w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aconcagua-high-camp_peter_bilodeau-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aconcagua-high-camp_peter_bilodeau-768x678.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aconcagua-high-camp_peter_bilodeau-1024x904.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aconcagua-high-camp_peter_bilodeau-940x829.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aconcagua-high-camp_peter_bilodeau-620x547.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aconcagua-high-camp_peter_bilodeau-195x172.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1700px) 100vw, 1700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The trail is up (photo: Peter Bilodeau)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Packing, prepping, eating and drinking going on. Forecast still is MOS for tomorrow. Team is going to take their shot early tomorrow morning. Right decision. Doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make a ton of sense to stay at high camp in good weather. Wind, above all, is the concern on Aconcagua. With winds forecasted to stay at a low ebb through tomorrow, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to go. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll let you know how it all works out. Time to wish them luck.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 20, 2018 Nickel, Rikki, Martin and crew are at C3 &#8212; high camp. A little precip today as they moved up but wind is essentially nil. Clouds and no wind actually provides a bit of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgreen house\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 effect, making camp fairly comfortable. &nbsp; Packing, prepping, eating and drinking going on. Forecast still is MOS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18703","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\/18703","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18705,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18703\/revisions\/18705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}