\n\t\t\t\tPlaza Mulas (Peter Bilodeau)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>
\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nNickel, Rikki, Martin and crew are at Plaza Mulas, base camp on the Horcones Valley side of Aconcagua.\u00c2\u00a0 The summit and traverse are complete and they are down.\u00c2\u00a0 Living is large at this lower altitude with Grajales Expeditions, our service provider on Aconcagua (and long term friends) are doing all the cooking.\u00c2\u00a0 Life is good.<\/p>\n
They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do some serious gear sorting and readying loads for the mules.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow is the walk out to the road with light packs.\u00c2\u00a0 Another \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgear shuffle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in Penitentes and then the ride back to Mendoza.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be a long one tomorrow but no one cares.\u00c2\u00a0 These horses are heading for the barn.<\/p>\n
We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll call it a wrap for this expedition.\u00c2\u00a0 A safe, successful and fun expedition.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone did their part and gave it all they had.\u00c2\u00a0 By any measure, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s success.<\/p>\n
Team 4 finalizes prep in Seattle this week and then meets up in Mendoza this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Luke Reilly, fresh from a successful Vinson expedition, Jay Lyons and Leandro Villegas will be meeting their team of IMG climbers in Mendoza.<\/p>\n
One more time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c congratulations to all the climbers and guides on this trip.\u00c2\u00a0 Just another great job.<\/p>\n
Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
January 22nd, 2018 Nickel, Rikki, Martin and crew are at Plaza Mulas, base camp on the Horcones Valley side of Aconcagua.\u00c2\u00a0 The summit and traverse are complete and they are down.\u00c2\u00a0 Living is large at this lower altitude with Grajales Expeditions, our service provider on Aconcagua (and long term friends) are doing all the cooking.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18716","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\/18716","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=18716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18719,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions\/18719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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