{"id":238,"date":"2016-12-29T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/?p=238"},"modified":"2016-12-30T03:22:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T03:22:10","slug":"summit-la-malinche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2016\/12\/29\/summit-la-malinche\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit La Malinche"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_239\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 300px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161229_102048844_HDR-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Laurel makes the final steps\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161229_102048844_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161229_102048844_HDR-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161229_102048844_HDR-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Laurel makes the final steps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was a grueling but worthwhile ascent of 14600 foot La Malinche.   It&#8217;s best described as two thousand feet straight up to the tree line. Then above the Treeline you get on a scree slope that is quite slippery . I would describe this as the the crux of the climb . You take one step forward and a half step back. When you gain the actual Summit Ridge at 14000 feet there&#8217;s a bit of walking and a very small bit of rock scrambling to gain the true Summit .  7 hours and 4 thousand feet of pull produced this remarkable view.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161229_102205651_HDR-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"img_20161229_102205651_hdr\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161229_102205651_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161229_102205651_HDR-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161229_102205651_HDR-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We could see for a good ways across Mexico and into the eyes of Popocatepetl and Iztacchuatel and our ultimate objective, Orizaba.<\/p>\n<p>When we arrived at the crowded summit a group of Mexican climbers were resting. They asked where we were from and there was a pregnant pause until I related that I did not vote for Trump. At this juncture one of them said they would probably not have to sacrifice us to the mountain gods.<br \/>\nThen they allowed us to take as Summit selfie. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161229_102115126_HDR-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"img_20161229_102115126_hdr\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-241\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161229_102115126_HDR-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161229_102115126_HDR-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161229_102115126_HDR-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Laurel got to feel the pain of high altitude and it was truly a thin air experience for her but she prevailed and pushed on. We will spend a couple more days here in Puebla before catching a bus to Tlachichuca.  Stay tuned.  Below is a pic of the volcano from Puebla<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/images-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-244\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/images-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/images.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a grueling but worthwhile ascent of 14600 foot La Malinche. It&#8217;s best described as two thousand feet straight up to the tree line. Then above the Treeline you get on a scree slope that is quite slippery . &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2016\/12\/29\/summit-la-malinche\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}