{"id":3962,"date":"2011-07-14T07:44:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2011-07-14T09:04:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T17:04:33","slug":"carstensz-team-reaches-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/14\/carstensz-pyramid\/carstensz-team-reaches-base-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Carstensz Team Reaches Base Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 14, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3963\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Carstenz.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[3962]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3963\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3963     \" title=\"Base Camp Carstensz.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Carstenz-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Carstenz-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Carstenz.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Base Camp is situated by the turquoise lakes at the foot of the mountain. (Photo by Jim Walkley)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jason  Edwards reports that the team has successfully reached base camp, after seven  days of trekking.\u00c2\u00a0 This is one more than the planned six days, and was due to an  adjustment made at the request of the porters, who wanted to pull up short on  the next-to-last day, so they could make it to BC early the following day and be  able to turn around and make it back to their camp (where they have wood and  water).<\/p>\n<p>The weather has been excellent for the team, with only occasional rain,  and clear skies for much of the time.\u00c2\u00a0 The sun was nice, because they got wet  many times a day with all the stream crossings on the plateau.\u00c2\u00a0 Jason says they  wore their rubber boots for the entire trek, except for the last day of hiking  to BC!<\/p>\n<p>Now, they are preparing for the climb of Carstensz.\u00c2\u00a0 The plan is to try  tomorrow, with a departure about 3am, and about 12 hours projected for the round  trip ascent\/descent.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 14, 2011 Jason Edwards reports that the team has successfully reached base camp, after seven days of trekking.\u00c2\u00a0 This is one more than the planned six days, and was due to an adjustment made at the request of the porters, who wanted to pull up short on the next-to-last day, so they could make [&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-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carstensz-pyramid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","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=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}