{"id":209,"date":"2010-02-05T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=209"},"modified":"2010-02-05T13:56:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:56:45","slug":"and-theyre-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/05\/aconcagua\/and-theyre-off\/","title":{"rendered":"And They&#8217;re Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 5, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Team leader, Mike Hamill, just called in from Casa Piedre.\u00c2\u00a0 The crew is now 2 days into their 3 day trek to base camp.\u00c2\u00a0 Casa Piedre is around 10,000\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00c2\u00a0 This is where the team gets their first really good view of the mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 The word is \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so far, so good.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been clear and sunny but a tad on the breezy side.\u00c2\u00a0 Probably a good thing they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not high on the mountain now.\u00c2\u00a0 People above are probably getting a bit blasted.\u00c2\u00a0 But breezy works just fine during the approach.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll cross the Vacas River first thing in the morning and then head up the Relinchos River to base camp.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when we should hear next from Mike.\u00c2\u00a0 These early days are critical to a good acclimatization process.\u00c2\u00a0 And Mike reports that everyone is doing well.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about all we can ask for now.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"500\" align=\"middle\" width=\"375\" alt=\"Aconcagua - Casa Piedre\" title=\"Aconcagua - Casa Piedre\" src=\"http:\/\/images2d.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp53693%3Enu%3D337%3B%3E275%3E4%3A3%3EWSNRCG%3D32%3A9349542345nu0mrj\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 5, 2010 Team leader, Mike Hamill, just called in from Casa Piedre.\u00c2\u00a0 The crew is now 2 days into their 3 day trek to base camp.\u00c2\u00a0 Casa Piedre is around 10,000\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00c2\u00a0 This is where the team gets their first really good view of the mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 The word is \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so far, so good.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&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-209","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\/209","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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}