{"id":2285,"date":"2010-11-22T11:35:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T19:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2010-11-22T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T19:35:14","slug":"tis-the-vinson-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/22\/vinson-antarctica\/tis-the-vinson-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Tis The Vinson Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 22, 2010<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2286\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_0087.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2285]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2286\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2286\" title=\"Landing at Vinson base camp.\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_0087-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_0087-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_0087-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landing at Vinson base camp.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It must be about Thanksgiving time because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m heading to Antarctica.\u00c2\u00a0 That  seems to be a holiday tradition for me.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Senior Guide, \u00c2\u00a0Aaron Mainer, and I  leave for Punta Arenas, Chile early Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll meet our team on  Thanksgiving day and finish packing for our flight to Antarctica.\u00c2\u00a0 8 climbers  are joining us on this expedition.\u00c2\u00a0 Early season is my favorite.\u00c2\u00a0 The mountain  is fresh and fewer folks are there.\u00c2\u00a0 Downside is that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit chilly.\u00c2\u00a0 Heck,  it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Antarctica, what did we expect?<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try to keep folks at home  posted on our progress.\u00c2\u00a0 All is done via satellite phone.\u00c2\u00a0 Once we&#8217;re on the ice we&#8217;ll need 6 or 7 days  of reasonable weather to get up and down the thing.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll keep you posted.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh,  have some turkey for us.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 22, 2010 It must be about Thanksgiving time because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m heading to Antarctica.\u00c2\u00a0 That seems to be a holiday tradition for me.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Senior Guide, \u00c2\u00a0Aaron Mainer, and I leave for Punta Arenas, Chile early Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll meet our team on Thanksgiving day and finish packing for our flight to Antarctica.\u00c2\u00a0 8 climbers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","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=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}