{"id":8583,"date":"2012-11-30T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=8583"},"modified":"2012-11-30T08:46:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T16:46:13","slug":"winter-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/30\/vinson-antarctica\/winter-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 30, 2012<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8584\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Resting-with-the-boots-off.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8583]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8584\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8584\" title=\"Resting with the boots off (Phil Ershler)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Resting-with-the-boots-off-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resting with the boots off (Phil Ershler)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Spoke with Mike Hamill late yesterday afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather was reasonable where they were (C1) but he had the crew out reinforcing snow walls.\u00c2\u00a0 Winds were unreasonably high for a move to C2 and the forecast is for wind to continue for at least a couple more days.<\/p>\n<p>The comfort level at C1 is much nicer than at C2 when weather is bad.\u00c2\u00a0 You can easily see the winds blowing snow up high when outside the tent at C1.\u00c2\u00a0 As long as you see those plumes, why bother going up?\u00c2\u00a0 The team has made their carry up high and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re right where they should be.\u00c2\u00a0 48 hours of reasonable weather and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on the summit.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike and team are playing this just right.\u00c2\u00a0 As soon as the winds die, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 30, 2012 Spoke with Mike Hamill late yesterday afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather was reasonable where they were (C1) but he had the crew out reinforcing snow walls.\u00c2\u00a0 Winds were unreasonably high for a move to C2 and the forecast is for wind to continue for at least a couple more days. The comfort level at C1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583","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=8583"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8591,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions\/8591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}