{"id":8645,"date":"2012-12-10T08:45:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T16:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=8645"},"modified":"2012-12-10T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T17:39:13","slug":"skiing-toward-the-south-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/10\/vinson-antarctica\/skiing-toward-the-south-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Skiing Toward The South Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 10, 2012<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8646\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_1218.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8645]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8646\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8646  \" title=\"Not entirely featureless on the terrain (Pat McCran)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_1218-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not entirely featureless on the terrain (Pat McCran)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mike Hamill called in Sunday, somewhere south of 89 degrees.\u00c2\u00a0 They were able to fly to the 89 degree S point on Saturday and even got in a couple of km. that day.\u00c2\u00a0 Sunday was a full ski day.\u00c2\u00a0 So far, so good.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike said the winds weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t unreasonable.\u00c2\u00a0 When going towards the Pole, any wind is going to be in your face normally.\u00c2\u00a0 The katabatic winds sink and head north from the Pole.\u00c2\u00a0 You just hope they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not too strong.\u00c2\u00a0 The scenery \u00e2\u20ac\u201c well, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not going to change much for the entire 100 km.\u00c2\u00a0 The terrain is relatively \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeatureless\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 once you get that far south.<\/p>\n<p>But Vanessa and Mike are off and running.\u00c2\u00a0 All\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 10, 2012 Mike Hamill called in Sunday, somewhere south of 89 degrees.\u00c2\u00a0 They were able to fly to the 89 degree S point on Saturday and even got in a couple of km. that day.\u00c2\u00a0 Sunday was a full ski day.\u00c2\u00a0 So far, so good.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike said the winds weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t unreasonable.\u00c2\u00a0 When going towards [&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-8645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645","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=8645"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8652,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions\/8652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}