{"id":4129,"date":"2011-07-28T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T21:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2011-07-28T13:47:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T21:47:02","slug":"and-theyre-off-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/28\/kilimanjaro\/and-theyre-off-3\/","title":{"rendered":"And They&#8217;re Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 28, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4131\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Kili.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[4129]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4131\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4131 \" title=\"&quot;Keep your eye on the prize&quot; (Photo by Gary Lindberg)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Kili-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Keep your eye on the prize&quot; (Photo by Gary Lindberg)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On July 27, guide Eric Remza phoned in to say that all  members had reached Machame Camp.\u00c2\u00a0 5.5 hours is good time.\u00c2\u00a0 Elevation gain is  close to 4,000\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 so that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good effort.<\/p>\n<p>First day is always exciting.\u00c2\u00a0 After arriving at the Park  Entrance, all the members need to register with the Park and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun to watch  porter loads being made up, weighed and distributed.\u00c2\u00a0 Regulations are in place  to keep porter loads to a reasonable amount.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good thing and one we  strongly support.<\/p>\n<p>Easier day today with camp on the Shira Plateau being the  goal.\u00c2\u00a0 Pole, pole \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one step at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 28, 2011 On July 27, guide Eric Remza phoned in to say that all members had reached Machame Camp.\u00c2\u00a0 5.5 hours is good time.\u00c2\u00a0 Elevation gain is close to 4,000\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 so that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good effort. First day is always exciting.\u00c2\u00a0 After arriving at the Park Entrance, all the members need to register with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","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=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4137,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions\/4137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}