{"id":28489,"date":"2024-09-01T14:33:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T22:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=28489"},"modified":"2024-09-01T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T22:33:31","slug":"machu-picchu-trekkers-hit-the-inca-trail-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2024\/09\/01\/img-news\/machu-picchu-trekkers-hit-the-inca-trail-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Machu Picchu trekkers hit the Inca Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 1st, 2024<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-28489 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2024\/09\/01\/img-news\/machu-picchu-trekkers-hit-the-inca-trail-3\/attachment\/the-inca-trail-sign\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Inca-trail-sign-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"The Inca trail sign (Tyler Nachand)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-28492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Inca-trail-sign-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Inca-trail-sign-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Inca-trail-sign-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Inca-trail-sign-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-28492'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Inca trail sign (Tyler Nachand)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2024\/09\/01\/img-news\/machu-picchu-trekkers-hit-the-inca-trail-3\/attachment\/inca-trail-map-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Inca-Trail-Map-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Inca Trail Map\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-28491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Inca-Trail-Map-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Inca-Trail-Map-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Inca-Trail-Map-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Inca-Trail-Map-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-28491'>\n\t\t\t\tInca Trail Map\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">IMG leaders Tyler Nachand and Maximo Henostroza report that the team were out the door early from the hotel in Ollantaytambo, on their way to the trailhead at about 8200 ft.\u00a0 Once they arrived, the trekkers needed to show permits and passports, since the number of trekkers permitted to start the Inca Trail each day is limited.\u00a0 While they were getting checked in, Maximo was getting the local Quechua porters and camp staff squared away for the journey. They started the hike at the Urubamba River (one of the highest tributaries of the Amazon) with the goal of a long gradual ascent to the first night\u2019s camp at Wayllabamba (9,840&#8242;). Tyler said that it was a bit cloudy today, which was going to keep it a bit cooler.\u00a0 Maybe they will get a sprinkle.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 1st, 2024 IMG leaders Tyler Nachand and Maximo Henostroza report that the team were out the door early from the hotel in Ollantaytambo, on their way to the trailhead at about 8200 ft.\u00a0 Once they arrived, the trekkers needed to show permits and passports, since the number of trekkers permitted to start the Inca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,27,262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-img-news","category-machu-picchu","category-peru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28489","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=28489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28497,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28489\/revisions\/28497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}