{"id":11529,"date":"2014-11-19T21:43:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T04:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=11529"},"modified":"2014-11-19T21:43:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T04:43:47","slug":"break-open-champagne-18-nov-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/break-open-champagne-18-nov-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Break open the Champagne! (18 Nov 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every post we write has a purpose.  Today, the purpose is pure stoke.  There&#8217;s powder out there, and it&#8217;s waiting to be skied.  We found a whole bunch of it on Tuesday.  Here&#8217;s some photos:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/pittsburg_18nov2014\/IMG_4086bendeep.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"Ben McShan backcountry skiing in Crested Butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/pittsburg_18nov2014\/IMG_4214bensun.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing powder in Crested Butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more READ MORE!--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/pittsburg_18nov2014\/IMG_4148benshade.jpg\" width=\"711\" height=\"531\" alt=\"Ben McShan backcountry skiing in Crested Butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/pittsburg_18nov2014\/IMG_4403benjump.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"615\" alt=\"Ben McShan backcountry skiing in Crested Butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/pittsburg_18nov2014\/IMG_4175benfun.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"608\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/pittsburg_18nov2014\/IMG_4426bendarkpow.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" alt=\"Ben McShan backcountry skiing in Crested Butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/pittsburg_18nov2014\/IMG_4357Purple.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"592\" alt=\"Purple near Crested Butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/pittsburg_18nov2014\/IMG_4473BritChampagne.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" alt=\"Brittany Konsella backcountry skiing at Crested Butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s make a toast &#8211; To powder and pleasure and pretty lines to ski.  Let&#8217;s hope that this ski season is one to remember.  <\/p>\n<p>Snow in the forecast!  Get out and play!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every post we write has a purpose. Today, the purpose is pure stoke. There&#8217;s powder out there, and it&#8217;s waiting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backcountry-skiing","category-crested-butte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11532,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions\/11532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}