{"id":134,"date":"2006-09-05T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T16:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=134"},"modified":"2018-11-23T23:11:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T18:11:12","slug":"134","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/134\/","title":{"rendered":"Trend upwards&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/fairymeadow.jpg\" alt=\"fairymeadow.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Golden, British Columbia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A highlight of my summer has been a week of mountaineering with a small group of climbing friends in the remote Adamant Range of the rugged Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia. After considerable agonizing (re: the questionable environmental ethics of using a helicopter for pleasure, etc.) we finally opted to chopper in to the beautiful Fairy Meadow, along with rock and glacier gear and a week\u2019s provisions. We stayed at the ACC\u2019s Bill Putnam hut, and were blessed with spectacular weather that allowed for numerous summits and awe-inspiring views\u2014though physically taxing, the week was a splendid time of fellowship and rejuvenation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>That\u2019s me on the approach to Mt. Colossal (not shown) with Peter Aitchison on a blistering hot day\u2026 the glacier was literally melting under our feet, making for some exciting crevasse crossings on the descent. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden, British Columbia A highlight of my summer has been a week of mountaineering with a small group of climbing friends in the remote Adamant Range of the rugged Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia. After considerable agonizing (re: the questionable environmental ethics of using a helicopter for pleasure, etc.) we finally opted to chopper in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7,11,15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17133,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/17133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}