{"id":8071,"date":"2026-01-31T09:16:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8071"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:39:49","slug":"andean-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8071","title":{"rendered":"Andean vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Chilie\/San%20Jose\/DSC_4042_jose.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"627\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Chilie\/San%20Jose\/DSC_4224_jose.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We suddenly found ourselves with a chance to once again escape the darkest time of the year to the other hemisphere. And since there\u2019s been an outstanding debt to Marmolejo hanging over us since last year, that\u2019s where we headed again \u2014 this time bringing along a companion. To avoid repeating ourselves, we decided to take a different route this time \u2014 via the San Jos\u00e9 volcano, 5,856 m. We did summit San Jos\u00e9. And then we spent two days sitting at 5,100 m in a snowstorm that buried us under a meter and a half of wet snow.<\/p>\n<p>That put an end to the Marmolejo ascent: avalanche danger shot up to an indecent level, scrambling through volcanic rubble in that kind of snow was completely leg-breaking, and we didn\u2019t have the time to wait another two or three days for the sun to settle the snow.<\/p>\n<p>Details to follow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=26164204973187298&#038;set=a.494765153891299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss on FB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Chilie\/San%20Jose\/DSC_4042_jose.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"627\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Chilie\/San%20Jose\/DSC_4224_jose.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We suddenly found ourselves with a chance to once again escape the darkest time of the year to the other hemisphere. And since there\u2019s been an outstanding debt to Marmolejo hanging over us since last year, that\u2019s <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8071\">Andean vacation<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[515,317,400],"tags":[584],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8074,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions\/8074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}