{"id":3892,"date":"2011-07-09T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2011-07-09T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T15:00:38","slug":"rugged-trekking-to-carstensz-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/09\/carstensz-pyramid\/rugged-trekking-to-carstensz-base-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugged Trekking to Carstensz Base Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 9, 2011<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/photos\/carstensz\/trek6-serkasito-telambela.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[3892]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/photos\/carstensz\/trek6-serkasito-telambela.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The approach. (Photo by Terry McClain)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG  senior guide Jason Edwards called on the sat phone to report that the team was  doing well, and had reached 10,000 feet.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather has been excellent, with  clear skies, but they were still glad that they brought rubber boots for the  trek, since there has been plenty of sloppy footing.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked him about the  terrain they were dealing with, he said Machame X 3, meaning three times tougher  than the trip to 10,000 feet on Kilimanjaro!\u00c2\u00a0 So far they have waded across a  river, scrambled across slabby rock, climbed over logs, and bushwhacked through  the forest.\u00c2\u00a0 He said that the Dani porters were tough as nails and totally at  home in this environment.<\/p>\n<p>So far so good!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 9, 2011 IMG senior guide Jason Edwards called on the sat phone to report that the team was doing well, and had reached 10,000 feet.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather has been excellent, with clear skies, but they were still glad that they brought rubber boots for the trek, since there has been plenty of sloppy footing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carstensz-pyramid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892","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=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}