{"id":1664,"date":"2011-04-04T05:41:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T11:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2011-04-03T20:31:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T02:31:01","slug":"tr-can-you-double-bag-that-please-afley-purple-peak-2-apr-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/tr-can-you-double-bag-that-please-afley-purple-peak-2-apr-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"TR: Can you double bag that please? Afley & Purple Peak (2 Apr 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been too long since I’ve been in the high alpine. Weather windows kept happening on week days, but alas, I am a weekend warrior. After two weeks of battling a bug that delivered 4 days of 102 degree fever topped with a long-lasting heinous cough, I was finally began feeling like myself again on Thursday. With the weather shaping up for a bluebird day, it was time to hit the high alpine. Frank was out filming with AE Films<\/a>, but I was able to convince Josh to join me, and his roommate Brett also joined. Our plan was for a double bag- Afley and Purple Peak, which lie adjacent to one another at the end of Scarp’s Ridge. <\/p>\n

Afley – one that’s been on my more recent wish list.
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Purple Peak – also on the wish list<\/a>.
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As we took these photos of our intended lines, we debated which to hit first. With temperatures rising fast and wet-slides a definite concern, we decided to hit the east-facing Afley first. We traversed and skinned to the ridge and prepared to boot from there.
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View of Purple Peak from the summit of Afley.
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The cornice- scary, but also a beautiful work of art.
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Josh got first dibs.
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Brett, dropping in off the cornice.
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Me.
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The snow was excellent:) And the timing of our descent was perfect. From the bottom of Afley, we began heading over to Purple Peak.
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Eventually, it became too steep to skin any longer, and we switched to booting. Brett and Josh.
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Brett and I near the top of our line.
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With this north-facing aspect, we skied April pow. Brett.
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Josh.
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Me, enjoying the creamy apron.
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A look back at our line.
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As we skinned back up to the ridge, the winds increased and clouds began rolling in. Our timing again had been perfect. We were back to the trailhead before 1:30, less than 6.5 hours after we’d left. Not bad for a double bag sort of day \ud83d\ude42 It was great to be out in the high alpine. I can’t wait to get out again \ud83d\ude42 Thanks Josh and Brett for a fantastic day out! <\/p>\n

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It’s been too long since I’ve been in the high alpine. Weather windows kept happening on week days, but alas,<\/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":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backcountry-skiing","category-climbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","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=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}