{"id":3887,"date":"2011-07-08T21:55:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T05:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2011-07-08T22:09:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T06:09:29","slug":"the-descent-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/08\/denali\/the-descent-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Descent Has Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 8, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3888\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Heading-down-around-Washburns-Thumb-with-big-loads.-Photo-by-Michael-Bellamy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[3887]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3888\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3888 \" title=\"Heading down around Washburn's Thumb with big loads. (Photo by Michael Bellamy)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Heading-down-around-Washburns-Thumb-with-big-loads.-Photo-by-Michael-Bellamy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Heading-down-around-Washburns-Thumb-with-big-loads.-Photo-by-Michael-Bellamy.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Heading-down-around-Washburns-Thumb-with-big-loads.-Photo-by-Michael-Bellamy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Heading-down-around-Washburns-Thumb-with-big-loads.-Photo-by-Michael-Bellamy-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heading down around Washburn&#39;s Thumb with big loads. (Photo by Michael Bellamy)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The descent has begun.\u00c2\u00a0 I spoke with Greg around 3 pm (Alaska time)  today, July 8.\u00c2\u00a0 Gang was all back together and ready to head down from  14,000 ft.\u00c2\u00a0 Goal is to camp either at 11,000 ft. or even keep going and  make it to the Northeast Fork of the Kahiltna tonight at 7,800 ft.\u00c2\u00a0  Then, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a meal, rehydrate, get some sleep and an early morning start  for the landing strip.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best to move at night, assuming there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a  hard freeze.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s safer and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easier traveling on a firm surface.\u00c2\u00a0  With a little luck, the team could be in position to fly to Talkeetna  about mid-morning on the 9<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00c2\u00a0 Stars need to align to make that happen but not impossible.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll know soon.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 8, 2011 The descent has begun.\u00c2\u00a0 I spoke with Greg around 3 pm (Alaska time) today, July 8.\u00c2\u00a0 Gang was all back together and ready to head down from 14,000 ft.\u00c2\u00a0 Goal is to camp either at 11,000 ft. or even keep going and make it to the Northeast Fork of the Kahiltna tonight [&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-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887","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=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3890,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}