{"id":3805,"date":"2011-07-02T20:46:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T04:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2011-07-02T20:46:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T04:46:41","slug":"persistence-and-determination-are-omnipotent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/02\/denali\/persistence-and-determination-are-omnipotent\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistence And Determination Are Omnipotent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 2, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Spoke with Greg Vernovage this afternoon, the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>,  by sat phone.\u00c2\u00a0 The group had a serious carry yesterday to Washburn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  Thumb, well up on the West Buttress.\u00c2\u00a0 Another big milestone.\u00c2\u00a0 They  cached gear for their summit attempt there, at around 16,500 ft.\u00c2\u00a0 Then,  it was back down to 14,000 ft.\u00c2\u00a0 Today was a rest day at 14K.\u00c2\u00a0 They  visited with several IMG guides who are also working with AMS on  Denali.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike Hamill and his one climber had summited the day before as  had guides Aaron Mainer and Ty Gimenez and their one climber.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice.\u00c2\u00a0  Peter Anderson was leading a regular AMS West Buttress trip and he had  also been to the summit the day before.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice little get together and  nice to see everyone so successful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3806\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC02364.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[3805]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3806\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3806 \" title=\"DSC02364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC02364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC02364.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC02364-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC02364-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washburn&#39;s Thumb. (Photo by Michael Bellamy)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Weather  is a big \u00e2\u20ac\u02dciffy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 right now.\u00c2\u00a0 But, 14K is the absolute right place to be  when waiting out some marginal weather.\u00c2\u00a0 When you think about it, Denali  is basically a week long approach and a 3 day climb.\u00c2\u00a0 Greg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s team is in  the perfect position.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done the approach and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made their  carry up high.\u00c2\u00a0 Now they wait for a break in the weather.\u00c2\u00a0 When it  clears, they need 1 day of good weather to get to high camp and another  to summit.\u00c2\u00a0 So now they wait patiently and pick their shot.\u00c2\u00a0 The carry  to Washburn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Thumb is a tough day but everyone is doing well and still  in the game.\u00c2\u00a0 As Calvin Coolidge famously said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153persistence and  determination are omnipotent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 The team needs a bit of both now and a  bit of luck with the weather.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 2, 2011 Spoke with Greg Vernovage this afternoon, the 2nd, by sat phone.\u00c2\u00a0 The group had a serious carry yesterday to Washburn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Thumb, well up on the West Buttress.\u00c2\u00a0 Another big milestone.\u00c2\u00a0 They cached gear for their summit attempt there, at around 16,500 ft.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, it was back down to 14,000 ft.\u00c2\u00a0 Today was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","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=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}