{"id":3039,"date":"2011-02-11T09:28:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T17:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2011-02-11T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T17:28:16","slug":"big-mountains-tough-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/11\/aconcagua\/big-mountains-tough-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Mountains; Tough Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 11, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3041\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0881a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[3039]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3041\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3041 \" title=\"A nice view from Camp 2.\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0881a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nice view from Camp 2.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Light snow and wind didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t keep the team from heading up to  C2.\u00c2\u00a0 Two team members decided that discretion was the better part of valor  and decided it made more sense to head down.\u00c2\u00a0 Always a super tough decision but  an important lesson learned on the big mountains is that you have to listen to  your gut.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just not smart to push.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Lucero headed down with the folks and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be home soon.\u00c2\u00a0 For the others, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a matter of  continuing to take care of themselves and keep putting one foot in front of the  other.\u00c2\u00a0 We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say it enough \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Aconcagua is a big mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 7000 meters is  high.\u00c2\u00a0 There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing easy about climbing Aconcagua.\u00c2\u00a0 Keep wishing the team  luck and good weather.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 11, 2011 Light snow and wind didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t keep the team from heading up to C2.\u00c2\u00a0 Two team members decided that discretion was the better part of valor and decided it made more sense to head down.\u00c2\u00a0 Always a super tough decision but an important lesson learned on the big mountains is that you have [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aconcagua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","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=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}