{"id":160,"date":"2008-04-02T19:02:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T01:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2008-04-02T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T01:02:12","slug":"alaska-part-3-backcountry-on-turnagain-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/alaska-part-3-backcountry-on-turnagain-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Part 3: Backcountry on Turnagain Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on my Thrillhead Blog<\/em><\/p>\n

Turnagain Pass is arguably the most popular place to go backcountry skiing in Alaska. A ski trip to Girdwood would not be complete without dabbling around on the pass. I was happy when one morning Ron (another one of Kellie’s friends) gave me a ring one morning and asked me to join him and John up on the pass. It was a bluebird fantastically wonderful day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Ron and John:<\/p>\n

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We arrived parked near Magnum, and then headed up toward Sunburst.
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Sunburst<\/p>\n

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Skinning<\/p>\n

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Looking toward Turnagain Arm<\/p>\n

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A closer view of some fine mountains.<\/p>\n

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Looking across the pass<\/p>\n

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This peak inspired me as well. Ron thought it might be “Widow-Maker”<\/p>\n

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The views were simply amazing. I couldn’t stop taking pictures.<\/p>\n

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Looking up toward Pastoral.<\/p>\n

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Looking across toward Magnum.<\/p>\n

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My first view of Kickstep. I continued to admire this mountain the entire day.<\/p>\n

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Kickstep<\/p>\n

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The guys gave me the honor of having first tracks. I enjoyed them thoroughly \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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John<\/p>\n

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Ron<\/p>\n

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We went back up for another lap, seeing what else Sunburst had to offer. Another view of Kickstep.<\/p>\n

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Ron heading down for our second run of the day.<\/p>\n

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John<\/p>\n

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After our second lovely run of the day we headed up for another on Magnum. You could see our tracks on Sunburst while skinning up Magnum.<\/p>\n

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And the skin on Magnum provided equally beautiful views.<\/p>\n

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Ron enjoying our 3rd run of the day.<\/p>\n

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Our tracks down Magnum.<\/p>\n

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We went up for a 4th run, again down Magnum and it was as good as the first.<\/p>\n

By the end of the day I was exhausted. It was a well-earned day in the backcountry, enjoying Alaskan powder and sunshine with fantastic people. It doesn’t get much better than that!<\/p>\n

Thanks Ron and John for a great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on my Thrillhead Blog Turnagain Pass is arguably the most popular place to go backcountry skiing in Alaska.<\/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":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backcountry-skiing","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}