{"id":249,"date":"2017-01-07T13:59:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T13:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/?p=249"},"modified":"2017-01-07T23:49:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T23:49:32","slug":"summit-orizaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2017\/01\/07\/summit-orizaba\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit Orizaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20170104_181039-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"img_20170104_181039\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20170104_181039-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20170104_181039-768x585.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20170104_181039-1024x780.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I reached the summit of icy Pico de Orizaba at 8 am on January 3.  It was a 7 hour solo push from 14 k to 18.6 k and nearly 11 hours roundtrip.  Laurel, having succumbed to acute mountain sickness was escorted back to Tlachichuca the previous morning in Joaquin&#8217;s 4 WD.  There she made a rapid and full recovery.  She then insisted I return for a solo run.  Having made sure that she was in condition to be left down there in the trusty hands of Joaquin and Maribel, I heeded her insistence and returned to high camp and began my summit push at 1 am.<\/p>\n<p>We are presently in Chattanooga having been caught in the snowstorm in our return from Mexico.   Just thought I would share a few preliminary notes before giving a full Expedition report.<br \/>\nHope everyone is safe and warm.<br \/>\nBTW, Laurel and I just set a SouthernHighlander record that will likely never be broken by any other &#8220;highlander claiming&#8221; person.  Enjoy this 14,000 ft SOUTHERNHIGHLANDER campfire on Orizaba.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P1060785-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"p1060785\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-253\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P1060785-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P1060785-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P1060785-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reached the summit of icy Pico de Orizaba at 8 am on January 3. It was a 7 hour solo push from 14 k to 18.6 k and nearly 11 hours roundtrip. Laurel, having succumbed to acute mountain sickness &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2017\/01\/07\/summit-orizaba\/\">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\/249"}],"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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}