{"id":18878,"date":"2018-02-14T15:06:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T23:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=18878"},"modified":"2018-02-14T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T23:06:46","slug":"good-forecasts-for-aconcagua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/14\/aconcagua\/good-forecasts-for-aconcagua\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Forecasts for Aconcagua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 14th, 2018<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18879\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Room-with-a-View-Peter-Bilodeau.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[18878]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18879\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18879\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Room-with-a-View-Peter-Bilodeau-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Room with a View (Peter Bilodeau)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Room-with-a-View-Peter-Bilodeau-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Room-with-a-View-Peter-Bilodeau-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Room-with-a-View-Peter-Bilodeau-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Room-with-a-View-Peter-Bilodeau-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Room-with-a-View-Peter-Bilodeau-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Room-with-a-View-Peter-Bilodeau-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Room with a View (Peter Bilodeau)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Luke and team returned to Penitentes without issues.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll finish the gear sorting as soon as mules arrive and then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s onward to Mendoza.\u00c2\u00a0 Plaza Mulas, base camp on the Horcones side early this morning and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be dining on steak and Malbec tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 A life of extremes is not such a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>We talked a lot about forecasts during this Aconcagua season but we do like good forecasts.\u00c2\u00a0 Eric Remza and crew made their move to C2 today.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s huge.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re now at a point where they can sort of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpick their shot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00c2\u00a0 Just got off the phone with Eric and he said it was a sweet day and minimal wind at C2.\u00c2\u00a0 He also talked about how well the members were doing and how much everyone was pitching in to help get camp up the minute they arrived.\u00c2\u00a0 These guys are really climbers and not trekkers.\u00c2\u00a0 These guys are active, contributing team members and they will deserve their success.\u00c2\u00a0 Back to the forecast \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good.\u00c2\u00a0 The next few days don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t show precip and they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t show any big winds.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember, Aconcagua is famous (or infamous) for the Viento Blanco \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the White Wind.\u00c2\u00a0 Snow, cold \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no huge problem.\u00c2\u00a0 Wind \u00e2\u20ac\u201c big problem.\u00c2\u00a0 We \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthink\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in a great position.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe they carry tomorrow to high camp, throw in a rest day somewhere and get serious about taking a shot Sunday or Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Eric will keep me posted so I can share their plans as they continue to unfold.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contributing, staying reasonably healthy and the weather is not making their job more difficult.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all good.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 14th, 2018 &nbsp; Luke and team returned to Penitentes without issues.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll finish the gear sorting as soon as mules arrive and then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s onward to Mendoza.\u00c2\u00a0 Plaza Mulas, base camp on the Horcones side early this morning and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be dining on steak and Malbec tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 A life of extremes is not such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18878","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\/18878","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=18878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18881,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878\/revisions\/18881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}