{"id":21783,"date":"2019-02-06T17:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T01:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=21783"},"modified":"2019-02-06T17:06:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T01:06:43","slug":"the-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/06\/patagonia\/the-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Towers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 6, 2019<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21784\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Schrock12.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[21783]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21784\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Schrock12.jpeg\" alt=\"The Towers (Jonathan Schrock)\" width=\"640\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Schrock12.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Schrock12-300x193.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Schrock12-620x399.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Schrock12-195x126.jpeg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Towers (Jonathan Schrock)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Patagonia trekking crew made the drive from Puerto Natales this morning to the Torres del Paine National Park.\u00c2\u00a0 They took full advantage of the nice weather and boogied right up to the tower lookout.\u00c2\u00a0 Jonathan fired off a photo this afternoon of the group in front of the towers that the park is named after.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather in Patagonia can be shaky from time to time and getting a clear view of the towers isn&#8217;t a certain thing, but they lucked out today.\u00c2\u00a0 They are all settled in at Refugio Chileno for the night.\u00c2\u00a0 Today had some pretty good elevation gain on the trail and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll be time to put the head on the pillow early.<\/p>\n<p>In another part of Patagonia, IMG Guide Charlotte Austin has met her private trekking group in Calafate, Argentina.\u00c2\u00a0 All duffel bags have arrived in country and the team is ready to start a great trip. They&#8217;ve got some fun adventures planned for their trip which will include a visit to Perito Moreno glacier tomorrow, a few days of trekking in Chalten around the Fitz Roy Massif and then polish the trip off with a 4-day trek of the Huemul Circuit.\u00c2\u00a0 This is going to be a fun one, so follow along!<\/p>\n<p>Luke Reilly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 6, 2019 The Patagonia trekking crew made the drive from Puerto Natales this morning to the Torres del Paine National Park.\u00c2\u00a0 They took full advantage of the nice weather and boogied right up to the tower lookout.\u00c2\u00a0 Jonathan fired off a photo this afternoon of the group in front of the towers that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patagonia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783","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=21783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21786,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783\/revisions\/21786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}