{"id":194154,"date":"2015-01-11T20:33:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T03:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=194154"},"modified":"2015-01-10T22:25:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T05:25:02","slug":"old-faithful-mountain-resort-1-4-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/old-faithful-mountain-resort-1-4-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Faithful Mountain Resort  1.4.15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not really called Old Faithful.  It&#8217;s really called AMR.  Home of reliable 500+&#8221; seasons, it&#8217;s hard not to head the handful of miles west of Crested Butte to ski the Anthracites.  Sure, it&#8217;s sometimes crowded by our standards, and not very interesting or original, but sometimes it&#8217;s hard not to go there.  Especially when the backcountry close to Crested Butte, such as Snodgrass, has a thin and reactive snowpack and AMR has a nice thick and relatively stable one.  <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, it doesn&#8217;t even feel like Colorado here- it feels like Canada, eh?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_7085trees.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Crested Butte backcountry\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_7078frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"float backpack\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_7091trees.jpg\" width=\"636\" height=\"800\" alt=\"frosty crested butte trees\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more READ MORE!--><br \/>\nNeither Brittany or I had been in the backcountry for a while, which was another reason we chose the Anthracites.  The snow of late December and early January was setting up nicely:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_0011brit.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"Anthracites mountain resort\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_7126frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"Anthracites mountain resort\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even though we felt good with what we were skiing, the signs of the recent avalanche cycle were everywhere.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_7196slide.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"slide near crested butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_0017slide.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"Ohio peak avalanche\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Skinning up for another lap:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_7200frankskins.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_7228frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Second Lap:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_0021BritLarger.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"Brittany Konsella skiing\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_0024Brit.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"Brittany Konsella skiing\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_0031brit.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_7404frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_7265frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_7320frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_7329frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_7348frankBW.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As always, Old Faithful delivered.  As much as I hate to admit it, the skiing is almost always good there.  We&#8217;ve been there a million times, we&#8217;ll probably go another million more.  Til next time&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/anthracites_2jan2015\/IMG_0066theend.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=28945&amp;p=23393&amp;pw=29053\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not really called Old Faithful. It&#8217;s really called AMR. Home of reliable 500+&#8221; seasons, it&#8217;s hard not to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194154","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\/194154","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194160,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194154\/revisions\/194160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}