{"id":54,"date":"2009-03-30T14:57:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T22:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=54"},"modified":"2009-03-30T15:02:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T23:02:55","slug":"georges-team-summits-whitney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/30\/whitney\/georges-team-summits-whitney\/","title":{"rendered":"George&#8217;s Team Summits Whitney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 30, 2009<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"230\" width=\"307\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/photos\/whitney\/whitney3.jpg\" \/>IMG Partner &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/whitney.shtml\">Whitney<\/a> Program Director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/dunn.shtml\">George Dunn<\/a> called in today to let us know that the his team summitted yesterday&#8230; 8 for 8 on top! The weather was warm down low but some strong winds (40-50mph) higher up on the mountain made for a COLD summit day&#8230;. The good news is that snow conditions on the upper mountain were perfect!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whitney Info<\/strong><br \/>\nMt. Whitney, at 14,495 feet is the highest peak in the lower 48 states.Techniques used and introduced on this climb include running belays and fixed line work. We use expedition camping skills and bring the same equipment that we would use on a summer climb of Mt. Rainier. In addition, we typically use snowshoes on the approach hike up to high camp.<\/p>\n<p>Day 1: Approach hike to 10,300ft.<br \/>\nDay 2: Move to high camp at 12,200ft<br \/>\nDay 3: Summit day &#038; back to high camp.<br \/>\nDay 4: Hike out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Tye Chapman<br \/>\nIMG Operations Manager<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/everest-south09.shtml\">Ongoing coverage of our Everest Expedition!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 30, 2009 IMG Partner &#038; Whitney Program Director George Dunn called in today to let us know that the his team summitted yesterday&#8230; 8 for 8 on top! The weather was warm down low but some strong winds (40-50mph) higher up on the mountain made for a COLD summit day&#8230;. The good news is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whitney","tag-snow-anchors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}