{"id":28892,"date":"2024-12-31T07:55:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T15:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=28892"},"modified":"2024-12-31T07:55:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T15:55:47","slug":"aconcagua-team-1-hits-the-trail-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2024\/12\/31\/img-news\/aconcagua-team-1-hits-the-trail-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aconcagua Team 1 hits the trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 31st, 2024<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-28892 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/img-team-1-climbers-at-the-aconcagua-trailhead-ready-to-start-stu-johnson\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG-Team-1-climbers-at-the-Aconcagua-trailhead-ready-to-start-Stu-Johnson-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"IMG Team 1 climbers at the Aconcagua trailhead ready to start (Stu Johnson)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-28895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG-Team-1-climbers-at-the-Aconcagua-trailhead-ready-to-start-Stu-Johnson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG-Team-1-climbers-at-the-Aconcagua-trailhead-ready-to-start-Stu-Johnson-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG-Team-1-climbers-at-the-Aconcagua-trailhead-ready-to-start-Stu-Johnson-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG-Team-1-climbers-at-the-Aconcagua-trailhead-ready-to-start-Stu-Johnson-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-1-28895'>\n\t\t\t\tIMG Team 1 climbers at the Aconcagua trailhead ready to start (Stu Johnson)\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\/stu-johnson-and-the-team-putting-the-mule-loads-together-in-mendoza-surya-gutta\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Stu-Johnson-and-the-team-putting-the-mule-loads-together-in-Mendoza-Surya-Gutta-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Stu Johnson and the team putting the mule loads together in Mendoza (Surya Gutta)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-28896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Stu-Johnson-and-the-team-putting-the-mule-loads-together-in-Mendoza-Surya-Gutta-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Stu-Johnson-and-the-team-putting-the-mule-loads-together-in-Mendoza-Surya-Gutta-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Stu-Johnson-and-the-team-putting-the-mule-loads-together-in-Mendoza-Surya-Gutta-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Stu-Johnson-and-the-team-putting-the-mule-loads-together-in-Mendoza-Surya-Gutta-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-1-28896'>\n\t\t\t\tStu Johnson and the team putting the mule loads together in Mendoza (Surya Gutta)\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\/aconcagua-map-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Aconcagua-map-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Aconcagua map\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-28894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Aconcagua-map-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Aconcagua-map-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Aconcagua-map-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Aconcagua-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-1-28894'>\n\t\t\t\tAconcagua map\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>IMG leader Stu Johnson reports that the team had a good day yesterday putting the finishing touches on packing up the mule loads, and then driving west from Mendoza up to Penitentes, near to the border with Chile. \u00a0They are planning for 8 mules to carry the food, fuel and gear on the three day approach to the Plaza Argentina Base Camp.\u00a0 The first two days they will follow the Vacas River valley, spending tonight at Lenas and tomorrow night at Casa de Piedra.\u00a0 Then, they turn west and ascend up the Relinchos River Valley to the Base Camp. Coming from North America in the winter, the team will be slathering on the sunscreen for the high altitude summer sunshine in Argentina (which sounds pretty good right now!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 31st, 2024 IMG leader Stu Johnson reports that the team had a good day yesterday putting the finishing touches on packing up the mule loads, and then driving west from Mendoza up to Penitentes, near to the border with Chile. \u00a0They are planning for 8 mules to carry the food, fuel and gear on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2],"tags":[82,80,79],"class_list":["post-28892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aconcagua","category-img-news","tag-aconcagua","tag-img","tag-international-mountain-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892","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=28892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28900,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892\/revisions\/28900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}