{"id":24066,"date":"2020-01-19T17:41:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T01:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=24066"},"modified":"2020-01-19T17:41:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T01:41:57","slug":"ecuador-team-setting-sights-on-chimborazo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/19\/ecuador-volcanoes\/ecuador-team-setting-sights-on-chimborazo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador Team Setting Sights on Chimborazo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 19, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Jay called me last evening after the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attempt on Cotopaxi. No summit. Weather wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t good when they woke up, so they delayed departure for a bit. Still wasn&#8217;t great, but they finally decided to take a shot. 17,500\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, more or less, and they were just too wet with no real hope in sight. Discretion being the better part of valor, they made a u-turn and came down. Some members will head home now while others will stay and attempt Chimborazo.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24067\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/chimborazo_luke_reilly.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[24066]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24067\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/chimborazo_luke_reilly.jpg\" alt=\"Chimborazo (Luke Reilly)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/chimborazo_luke_reilly.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/chimborazo_luke_reilly-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/chimborazo_luke_reilly-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/chimborazo_luke_reilly-940x490.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/chimborazo_luke_reilly-620x323.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/chimborazo_luke_reilly-195x102.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chimborazo (Luke Reilly)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping the weather allows another solid attempt and that the climbers can stay strong for one more summit. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s see, and we&#8217;ll wish them luck.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 19, 2020 Jay called me last evening after the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attempt on Cotopaxi. No summit. Weather wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t good when they woke up, so they delayed departure for a bit. Still wasn&#8217;t great, but they finally decided to take a shot. 17,500\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, more or less, and they were just too wet with no real hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24066","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\/24066","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=24066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24068,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24066\/revisions\/24068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}