{"id":414,"date":"2004-09-08T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/09\/08\/toluca-lake-california-29\/"},"modified":"2004-09-08T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T05:40:00","slug":"toluca-lake-california-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/09\/08\/toluca-lake-california-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Toluca Lake, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few travel-related notes for once&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working out the details with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galapagosconnection.net\">Greg &amp; Thalia<\/a> for the 2006 Galapagos trip.  Interest has been high for this one, so I&#8217;m hopeful that a good group will sign up for it pretty quickly.  I&#8217;m trying to determine the feasibility of doing the standard Galapagos trip, followed by a scuba trip to Darwin and Wolf &#8212; I should hopefully know more before the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Newsroom\/NewImages\/images.php3?img_id=10312\">South Georgia<\/a> is only three weeks away now, and more details of the trip are coming into focus:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It will take four flights spread over four days to get from Oakland, California to Stanley in the Falklands.<\/li>\n<li>From Stanley it will take another three to four days, depending on weather and currents, to sail to South Georgia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"South Atlantic Map\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanadventures.co.uk\/images\/map-exp.jpg\" width=\"225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanadventures.co.uk\/\">www.oceanadventures.co.uk<\/a>.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The captain of our yacht, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizon.co.fk\/goldenfleecexp\/english\/poncet_en.html\">Jerome Poncet<\/a>, is a legend in the South Atlantic.  I&#8217;ve heard several stories already, and can&#8217;t wait to meet the man in person.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll have approximately eighteen days on South Georgia.  <a href=\"\/photos\/antarctica\/pages\/35-roll\/35-paradise-cheeseman-family.html#top\">Ted<\/a> is planning to take three days to retrace <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ernest_Shackleton#1914.26ndash.3B1916_Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition\">Shackelton&#8217;s<\/a> route across the island with part of the group, but unfortunately my lack of experience traveling over snow and glaciers is going to cause me to miss that one.<\/li>\n<li>On Ted&#8217;s advice I&#8217;ve purchased a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildsnow.com\/articles\/at_article_big\/at_article_big.html\">alpine touring skis<\/a>, which are basically light downhill skis that allow the heel to unhinge, thus doubling as cross-country skis.  They&#8217;re pricey, but should be great for the terrain we&#8217;ll experience.<\/li>\n<li>Snowfall was lighter than normal this year, and temperatures are expected to be mostly between thirty-two and fifty-five degrees fahrenheit, much cooler if we go inland.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to the new digital camera I&#8217;ve purchased a new tripod, so with luck the <a href=\"\/photos.html\">pictures<\/a> will come out well.<\/li>\n<li>Following the South Georgia trip I&#8217;ve booked two weeks in the Falklands, mostly at guesthouses on outlying islands.  It should be isolated enough that I may not know who the next President is until nearly tens days after the election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Georgia\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"South Georgia Island\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"331\" src=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/upload\/4\/42\/SouthGeorgiaIsland-EO.JPG\" width=\"522\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Image originally from <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Newsroom\/NewImages\/images.php3?img_id=10312\">MODIS Rapid Response Project at NASA\/GSFC<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few travel-related notes for once&#8230; I&#8217;m working out the details with Greg &amp; Thalia for the 2006 Galapagos trip. Interest has been high for this one, so I&#8217;m hopeful that a good group will sign up for it pretty quickly. I&#8217;m trying to determine the feasibility of doing the standard Galapagos trip, followed by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/09\/08\/toluca-lake-california-29\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toluca Lake, California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}