{"id":1657,"date":"2014-12-09T00:19:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2014-12-10T17:48:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T22:48:56","slug":"a-hike-up-ob-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2014\/12\/09\/a-hike-up-ob-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"A hike up Ob Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div>The first of our team is due to deploy on Friday to CTAM (Central Trans-Antarctic Mountains), and we&#8217;re excited to get out there!&nbsp; Friday is actually one day later than originally scheduled, due to delays in getting the groomers out to CTAM to prepare  the runway.&nbsp; So we had some extra time to enjoy in McMurdo, and some of us took the opportunity to climb Ob Hill (short for Observation Hill), a ~750-foot volcanic features at the edge of &#8216;town.&#8217;&nbsp; The loose rock can make the climb a bit tricky, but the summit  offers great views of McMurdo and the surrounding landscape.<\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2014\/12\/14204024\/PC100007_Christine_smaller.jpg\"> <\/div>\n<div>Caption:&nbsp; Christine and Vinciane ready to summit Ob Hill!&nbsp; McMurdo in the background.<\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div>Now to get ready for &#8216;bag drag&#8217;, taking our remaining baggage tomorrow (Thursday) evening to be checked for the flight to CTAM on Friday morning, . . .&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div>-posted by Devon, Dec 10 from McMurdo<\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  &nbsp;  The first of our team is due to deploy on Friday to CTAM (Central Trans-Antarctic Mountains), and we&#8217;re excited to get out there!&nbsp; Friday is actually one day later than originally scheduled, due to delays in getting the groomers out to CTAM to prepare  the runway.&nbsp; So we had some extra time to enjoy in McMurdo, and some of us took the opportunity to climb Ob Hill (short for Observation Hill), a ~750-foot volcanic features at the edge of &#8216;town.&#8217;&nbsp; The loose rock can make the climb a bit tricky, but the summit  offers great views of McMurdo and the surrounding landscape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2014\/12\/09\/a-hike-up-ob-hill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A hike up Ob Hill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2014\/12\/14204024\/PC100007_Christine_smaller.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}