{"id":188,"date":"2010-01-11T17:11:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T01:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=188"},"modified":"2010-01-11T17:11:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T01:11:55","slug":"patience-is-a-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/11\/vinson-antarctica\/patience-is-a-virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience Is A Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">January 11, 2010<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Just spoke with George down at 80  degrees south.\u00c2\u00a0 Amazing what you can do with technology these days.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather is  nice at the Patriot Hills.\u00c2\u00a0 The trick is for the meteorologist working for ALE  to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpredict\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 when the weather window looks like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to hold.\u00c2\u00a0 And, it  needs to hold long enough to get people in Punta rounded up and to the airport  there.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe a couple of hours.\u00c2\u00a0 Then another 4 for the flight and a couple of  hours \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcon deck\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at the Patriot Hills, getting the new crew off loaded and those  flying north on board with luggage.\u00c2\u00a0 Probably as much art as science but ALE  does a good job.\u00c2\u00a0 Short answer is that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not quite there yet.\u00c2\u00a0 And this is  a great example of the old adage, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153when in doubt, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 A great Denali bush pilot named Doug Geeting had that plastered on  his Cessna 185.\u00c2\u00a0 Makes a ton of sense.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">So, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more card playing and more  hot drinks.\u00c2\u00a0 But that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy with already have climbed Vinson Massif.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll let you know when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wheels  up.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Phil<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 11, 2010 Just spoke with George down at 80 degrees south.\u00c2\u00a0 Amazing what you can do with technology these days.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather is nice at the Patriot Hills.\u00c2\u00a0 The trick is for the meteorologist working for ALE to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpredict\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 when the weather window looks like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to hold.\u00c2\u00a0 And, it needs to hold long [&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-188","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\/188","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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}