{"id":5474,"date":"2011-12-01T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2011-12-01T10:00:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:00:54","slug":"way-too-much-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/01\/ecuador-volcanoes\/way-too-much-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Way Too Much Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 1, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5475\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Chimborazo2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5474]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5475\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5475\" title=\"Chimborazo in good weather (Photo: Jorge Anhalzer)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Chimborazo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Chimborazo2.jpg 425w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Chimborazo2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chimborazo in good weather (Photo: Jorge Anhalzer)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well, their luck finally ran out, just as the string of good weather ran out.\u00c2\u00a0 Corn snow, wet snow, rain \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and lots of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Climbing was out of the question.\u00c2\u00a0 Enough snow that the guys were concerned about even getting the vehicle stuck.\u00c2\u00a0 So, they left the Whymper hut last evening \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but down and not up, and headed back to Quito.<\/p>\n<p>Not folks to sit around, however, so they headed out this morning and hiked up Pinchincha, an hour or two outside of Quito.\u00c2\u00a0 Now they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re done.\u00c2\u00a0 Dinner tonight and lots of good byes.\u00c2\u00a0 Flights home early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Great adventure, great team, great friends. \u00c2\u00a0That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a success.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 1, 2011 Well, their luck finally ran out, just as the string of good weather ran out.\u00c2\u00a0 Corn snow, wet snow, rain \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and lots of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Climbing was out of the question.\u00c2\u00a0 Enough snow that the guys were concerned about even getting the vehicle stuck.\u00c2\u00a0 So, they left the Whymper hut last evening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecuador-volcanoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474","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=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5478,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions\/5478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}