{"id":21212,"date":"2018-12-16T17:46:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T01:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=21212"},"modified":"2018-12-17T08:55:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:55:24","slug":"full-steam-ahead-aconcagua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/16\/aconcagua\/full-steam-ahead-aconcagua\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Steam Ahead-Aconcagua!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 16, 2018<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21213\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/andy.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[21212]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21213\" class=\"size-large wp-image-21213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/andy-1024x769.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/andy-1024x769.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/andy-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/andy-768x577.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/andy-940x706.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/andy-620x465.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/andy-195x146.jpeg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/andy.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Checking in at the Aconcagua Provincial Park (Andy Polloczek)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Andy checked in this afternoon with nothing but good news.\u00c2\u00a0Andy, Rikki, Leo and crew have made their way to Pampa de Le\u00c3\u00b1as camp on the first day of the trek to basecamp.\u00c2\u00a0Looks like a nice and sunny day to me.\u00c2\u00a0 With all those smiles, I&#8217;m not sure where you could go wrong.\u00c2\u00a0Right about now, the team is comfortable in their tents after a great backcountry bbq meal of steaks, eggplant, and maybe a dash of wine.\u00c2\u00a0Tomorrow is another day on the trail up the Horcones Valley to Casa de Piedras.<\/p>\n<p>Down in Mendoza, Senior Guide Jonathan Schrock, has met the team and gear checks and food packing are well underway.\u00c2\u00a0The big task tomorrow is to secure Aconcagua climbing permits and make sure gear has been packed thoroughly.\u00c2\u00a0Once all the &#8220;chores&#8221; have been knocked out, they&#8217;ll enjoy a classic Argentine meal and get a good nights rest at low elevation.\u00c2\u00a0They&#8217;re ready to hit the trail!<\/p>\n<p>Luke Reilly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 16, 2018 Andy checked in this afternoon with nothing but good news.\u00c2\u00a0Andy, Rikki, Leo and crew have made their way to Pampa de Le\u00c3\u00b1as camp on the first day of the trek to basecamp.\u00c2\u00a0Looks like a nice and sunny day to me.\u00c2\u00a0 With all those smiles, I&#8217;m not sure where you could go wrong.\u00c2\u00a0Right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21212","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\/21212","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=21212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21219,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21212\/revisions\/21219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}