{"id":9135,"date":"2013-01-22T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=9135"},"modified":"2013-01-22T13:08:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:08:07","slug":"aconcagua-ups-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/22\/aconcagua\/aconcagua-ups-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"Aconcagua Ups &#038; Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 22, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9136\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Vernovage-Crew-in-Penitentes.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[9135]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9136\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9136\" title=\"Vernovage Crew in Penitentes. Trailhead tomorrow!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Vernovage-Crew-in-Penitentes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Vernovage-Crew-in-Penitentes.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Vernovage-Crew-in-Penitentes-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vernovage Crew in Penitentes. Trailhead tomorrow!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Peter Anderson checked in from Plaza de Mulas (Base Camp) yesterday evening after pulling the plug on summit day. They woke up to some super cold temps, a good bit of fresh snow, some wind to complicate matters, and a forecast calling for &#8216;more of the same&#8217;. It&#8217;s always a tough decision to pull the plug on a climb, but given the conditions &amp; forecast, it was for the best.\u00c2\u00a0 Today they&#8217;ll relax and rest up at Plaza de Mulas. Tomorrow it&#8217;s just an 18-mile hike (yes 18 miles!) down the valley to Penitentes and then a few hours in the van to Mendoza.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Penitentes right now is Greg Vernovage and his team. They spent the day putting the finishing touches on their gear and weighing the mule loads. Tomorrow they&#8217;ll head to the trailhead.<\/p>\n<p>Tye Chapman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 22, 2013 Peter Anderson checked in from Plaza de Mulas (Base Camp) yesterday evening after pulling the plug on summit day. They woke up to some super cold temps, a good bit of fresh snow, some wind to complicate matters, and a forecast calling for &#8216;more of the same&#8217;. It&#8217;s always a tough decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aconcagua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135","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=9135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9138,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions\/9138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}