{"id":189,"date":"2010-01-14T08:44:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T16:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=189"},"modified":"2010-01-14T08:48:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T16:48:20","slug":"aconcagua-team-1-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/14\/aconcagua\/aconcagua-team-1-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Aconcagua Team #1 On The Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 14, 2010<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"298\" height=\"396\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/images2e.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp53832%3Enu%3D337%3B%3E275%3E4%3A3%3EWSNRCG%3D32%3A5%3B25678345nu0mrj\" \/>Getting all team members to the right city, at the right time and with all their luggage might be the toughest part of an expedition.\u00c2\u00a0 Our first Aconcagua trip for the season got close.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone made it and right on time.\u00c2\u00a0 We only lost 2 pieces of luggage.\u00c2\u00a0 Good thing is that lots of stuff is available to buy in Mendoza so it was only a small hurdle.\u00c2\u00a0 Permits were purchased, gear checks started and a nice first night spent in the city of Mendoza.\u00c2\u00a0 A big steak dinner with red wine at one of the numerous sidewalk cafes is always a nice way to begin a trip.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours drive the next morning in our private transportation took the crew to the base of the mountain, a place called Penitentes.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a ski area during the winter (our summer) season.\u00c2\u00a0 Packing now consisted of getting everything into \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmule sized\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 loads and ready for the approach hike to begin the following morning.\u00c2\u00a0 That was yesterday morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Each of the 3 day approach will be about 10 linear miles.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll keep you posted as we get reports in regarding progress.\u00c2\u00a0 And as we always say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcno news is good news\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all off and running.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 14, 2010 Getting all team members to the right city, at the right time and with all their luggage might be the toughest part of an expedition.\u00c2\u00a0 Our first Aconcagua trip for the season got close.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone made it and right on time.\u00c2\u00a0 We only lost 2 pieces of luggage.\u00c2\u00a0 Good thing is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aconcagua","tag-snow-anchors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}