{"id":350,"date":"2006-12-14T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inaheartbeat.ca\/tyl\/?p=350"},"modified":"2006-12-14T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T02:07:00","slug":"wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/2006\/12\/14\/wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Thursday evening, Mt. Vinson.<br \/><\/em><br \/>We got the call this morning that we were off to Vinson. We packed up and took the Twin Otter for a 55 minute ride to Vinson base camp &#8211; it is overwhelmingly beautiful. We split the gear and loaded the sleds, then 5 hours 600m elevation gain to &#8216;corner camp&#8217;. We have set up here for the night to sleep at the feet of the giant! The view is spectacular &#8211; location location location.<\/p>\n<p>What can I say? Everyone is well and strong &#8211; carrying on average 30-35 lbs and pulling 50-70 lbs on the sled. Dale is cooking tonight &#8211; soup, and then no doubt Pat will cook up the main course; after all, she is the trip chef. I wish everyone had the opportunity to see what we are seeing. It is so surreal. Somehow all of the waiting, excrutiating though it was, was worth it!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tgwhf-uhn.ca\/html\/events\/antarctica\/images\/blog\/2006-12-14a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday evening, Mt. Vinson.We got the call this morning that we were off to Vinson. We packed up and took the Twin Otter for a 55 minute ride to Vinson base camp &#8211; it is overwhelmingly beautiful. We split the gear and loaded the sleds, then 5 hours 600m elevation gain to &#8216;corner camp&#8217;. We &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/2006\/12\/14\/wow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[15,23],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2006-category","category-updates","tag-antarctica","tag-blog-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}