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Time has come to leave Hacienda La Cienega.\u00c2\u00a0Yesterday was a fun day with everyone.\u00c2\u00a0We all visited another Hacienda at the base of Cotopaxi called San Augustine de Callo.\u00c2\u00a0This hacienda is one of the few archaeological sites with Incan ruins in Ecuador and today is famous for their potato soup.\u00c2\u00a0 The group sampled the soup and also took the time to feed the llamas some carrots.\u00c2\u00a0Everybody got a meal and was happy when it was time to leave.<\/p>\n
A trip to Ecuador isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t complete without a visit to the famed pilot and photographer, Jorge Anhalzar.\u00c2\u00a0Jorge showed us around his home and some of the books that he has published.\u00c2\u00a0A few of us picked up a souvenir book to take home and show off to our friends and family.<\/p>\n
A couple of the team members are taking off tonight to head home, while the rest of us are sticking around to give Chimborazo a shot.\u00c2\u00a0Instead of heading back to the busy life of Quito, we all spent the evening at local guide Romulo Cardenas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 guesthouse about 30 minutes outside of the big city.\u00c2\u00a0Romulo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wife, Patricia, never fails to provide us with a superb meal (including the local favorite of guinea pig).\u00c2\u00a0Lots of laughs were shared at dinner last night and we were joined by two other IMG guides, Rikki Dunn and Jay Lyons.\u00c2\u00a0You may know these two from Rainier or from other expeditions around the globe.\u00c2\u00a0The two are spending a month in Ecuador knocking off some of the classic climbs here.\u00c2\u00a0They have already successfully climbed Illiniza Sur and Cotopaxi, way to go guys.<\/p>\n
We will be loading the truck up first thing tomorrow morning and heading south to attempt a climb of a mountain whose summit is the farthest point from the center of the earth, and also closest to the sun, Chimborazo.\u00c2\u00a0Recent trip reports show that there are reasonable snow conditions on Chimborazo, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hope those reports are correct.\u00c2\u00a0We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all buzzing with excitement at the chance of going 3\/3 on this expedition.<\/p>\n
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November 12, 2018 Time has come to leave Hacienda La Cienega.\u00c2\u00a0Yesterday was a fun day with everyone.\u00c2\u00a0We all visited another Hacienda at the base of Cotopaxi called San Augustine de Callo.\u00c2\u00a0This hacienda is one of the few archaeological sites with Incan ruins in Ecuador and today is famous for their potato soup.\u00c2\u00a0 The group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecuador-volcanoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057","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=21057"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21065,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057\/revisions\/21065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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