{"id":1512,"date":"2010-12-13T22:49:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T04:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2010-12-13T22:49:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T04:49:10","slug":"tr-out-in-the-backcountry-again-12-dec-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/tr-out-in-the-backcountry-again-12-dec-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"TR: Out in the Backcountry Again (12 Dec 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Frank and I were joined by our friend Zach for some skiing in the backcountry.  It had been two weeks since I&#8217;d ventured into the Crested Butte backcountry.  With a few recent storms, I was curious what the backcountry had to offer.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the views are wonderful.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/?action=view&amp;current=1212101222valley.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/1212101222valley.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frank and Zack breaking trail.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/?action=view&amp;current=1212101238skinning.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/1212101238skinning.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more Read more--><\/p>\n<p>High winds prevented us from venturing above treeline and made us re-evaluate our line choice.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_4486view.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/IMG_4486view.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The snow was wind-affected, but we were able to find some good turns anyway.  Zack.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_4513zack.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/IMG_4513zack.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_4524zack.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/IMG_4524zack.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Me.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_4498brit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/IMG_4498brit.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_4500brit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/IMG_4500brit.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_4502brit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/IMG_4502brit.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frank.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_4542frank.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/IMG_4542frank.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_4546frank.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/IMG_4546frank.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking back at a few of our tracks.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_4554tracks.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Purple%20Palace%2012Dec2010\/IMG_4554tracks.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The high winds have had a big affect on our snowpack lately.  Still, there&#8217;s good skiing to be found!  <\/p>\n<p>Please help 14erskiers.com by clicking on the link to our sponsors below.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/click.php?tt=ml&amp;ti=28945&amp;pw=29053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/gbi\/10060\/28945\/23393\/29053\/image.jpg\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Frank and I were joined by our friend Zach for some skiing in the backcountry. It had been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backcountry-skiing","category-crested-butte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","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=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}