{"id":207,"date":"2010-02-02T11:15:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=207"},"modified":"2010-02-02T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:15:17","slug":"let-the-walking-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/02\/aconcagua\/let-the-walking-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let The Walking Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 2, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Climbing is easy.\u00c2\u00a0 Travel is tough.\u00c2\u00a0 And, if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true, the current Aconcagua trip should be great!\u00c2\u00a0 All the crew arrived on time and with all the luggage.\u00c2\u00a0 Securing the permit in Mendoza was an easy process, and the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already in Penitentes.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the base of the mountain and where the gang is now doing their final gear sort and making up loads for the mules.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice to have the mules to take the group gear into base camp at about 13,600 ft.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Senior Guides, Mike Hamill and Greg Vernovage are being joined by Martin, our Argentine guide, and our IMG Operations Manager, Tye Chapman, and our group of 9 climbers.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a full boat!<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll bet many of you have spoken with Tye on the phone or traded emails with him regarding an IMG program.\u00c2\u00a0 And how about Mike?\u00c2\u00a0 Remember seeing him featured on Show 3 of this year&#8217;s Discovery Channel Everest program?\u00c2\u00a0 And then there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Greg.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing like having a guide climbing with you who was the coach of the US Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Olympic Volleyball Team that competed in the Sydney Olympic games!\u00c2\u00a0 Oh yeah, did I mention they won the GOLD?<\/p>\n<p>We really do have a super team on Aconcagua right now and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll keep you posted on their progress.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember, no news is good news.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG guides tend to be more focused on climbing than blogging but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get the news out as soon as they check back in.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time now for them to do a bit of walking!<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"375\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" alt=\"A Little Walking To Do\" title=\"A Little Walking To Do\" src=\"http:\/\/images2e.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp53835%3Enu%3D337%3B%3E275%3E4%3A3%3EWSNRCG%3D32%3A8879549345nu0mrj\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2, 2010 Climbing is easy.\u00c2\u00a0 Travel is tough.\u00c2\u00a0 And, if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true, the current Aconcagua trip should be great!\u00c2\u00a0 All the crew arrived on time and with all the luggage.\u00c2\u00a0 Securing the permit in Mendoza was an easy process, and the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already in Penitentes.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the base of the mountain and where the [&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-207","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\/207","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=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}