{"id":25978,"date":"2022-06-24T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T18:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=25978"},"modified":"2022-06-25T07:34:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:34:35","slug":"machu-picchu-trekkers-hit-the-inca-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2022\/06\/24\/img-news\/machu-picchu-trekkers-hit-the-inca-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Machu Picchu Trekkers hit the Inca Trail!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

The Peru Team had a good day visiting the ruins at Ollantaytambo in the Sacred Valley, putting them in position to start the Inca Trail trek the next day. Now, they are (finally!) out of cell phone range and only checking in by sat phone and Inreach.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Mountain views from near Ollantaytambo (Dustin Balderach)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Weaving demonstration near Ollantaytambo (Dustin Balderach)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Exploring the ruins at Ollantaytambo (Dustin Balderach)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Yesterday the team crossed the Urubamba River at about 8000 ft and started the ascent up the Inca Trail.\u00c2\u00a0 Last night they were at about 10,000 feet and today they are heading up over the first high pass, the Abra de Huarmihuanusca (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dead Woman’s Pass\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) at about 13,700 feet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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On the way to Dead Woman’s Pass (Eric Simonson)<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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From here they will drop down a bit into small valley of Pacamayo. So far so good in Peru!!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The Peru Team had a good day visiting the ruins at Ollantaytambo in the Sacred Valley, putting them in position to start the Inca Trail trek the next day. Now, they are (finally!) out of cell phone range and only checking in by sat phone and Inreach.         Yesterday the team crossed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,27,262],"tags":[287,259],"class_list":["post-25978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-img-news","category-machu-picchu","category-peru","tag-machu-picchu","tag-peru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978","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=25978"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25999,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978\/revisions\/25999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}