{"id":22498,"date":"2019-06-04T10:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=22498"},"modified":"2019-06-04T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:52:07","slug":"waiting-game-on-denali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/04\/denali\/waiting-game-on-denali\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting Game on Denali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 4, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Andy and team are still playing a bit of a waiting game up at 17K. Weather is the issue which decides when they take a shot at the summit. Been too windy to make a safe summit attempt. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve still got time, so trying now to time things \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcjust right\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dug in with supplies to wait long, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re feeling well. Come on, weather!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22499\" style=\"width: 1220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/denali-headwall_jason_edwards.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[22498]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/denali-headwall_jason_edwards.jpg\" alt=\"The slope from 14K to 16K (Jason Edwards)\" width=\"1210\" height=\"907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/denali-headwall_jason_edwards.jpg 1210w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/denali-headwall_jason_edwards-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/denali-headwall_jason_edwards-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/denali-headwall_jason_edwards-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/denali-headwall_jason_edwards-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/denali-headwall_jason_edwards-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/denali-headwall_jason_edwards-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1210px) 100vw, 1210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The slope from 14K to 16K (Jason Edwards)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Austin and crew are in a good position at 14K. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve picked up their cache at 13.5K and will now make a carry up onto the Buttress as soon as they can. They too are watching the weather carefully. Preference for them would be to get their carry done and then sit at 14K until \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsigns say yes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and then head for the summit right away. Lots of food and fuel at 14K so they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re being patient and will be ready to move when the mountain says move.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 4, 2019 Andy and team are still playing a bit of a waiting game up at 17K. Weather is the issue which decides when they take a shot at the summit. Been too windy to make a safe summit attempt. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve still got time, so trying now to time things \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcjust right\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22501,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498\/revisions\/22501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}