{"id":2075,"date":"2012-01-11T23:32:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T05:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2012-01-11T23:32:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T05:32:53","slug":"whoa-new-snow-1-8-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/whoa-new-snow-1-8-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoa, New Snow!?  1.8.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It snowed last weekend for the first time in a long, long time.  Sure, it was only about 8&#8243;, but it felt more like 8&#8242; considering the way we&#8217;ve been deprived of snowfall this season in the Crested Butte area.  Brittany and I headed out to the Kebler Pass area, where amazingly people are still driving, to check things out.  Beautiful light on a beautiful day:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/?action=view&amp;current=DSCN7427fix.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/DSCN7427fix.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/?action=view&amp;current=DSCN7429fix.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/DSCN7429fix.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brittany shredding it up:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_8518fix.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/IMG_8518fix.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_8522fix.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/IMG_8522fix.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_8524fix.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/IMG_8524fix.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_8544fix.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/IMG_8544fix.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given the state of this year&#8217;s snowpack, it didn&#8217;t take much new snow to increase the avalanche danger.  You can see a small slab that broke loose, but didn&#8217;t move, in this photo:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_8556fix.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Anthracites%201-8-12\/IMG_8556fix.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will take a lot for avalanche conditions to improve this year in Colorado and Utah, so keep it mellow in the backcountry this year, ski the resorts, and travel to places with a better snowpack.  Do a little snow dance- it sounds like we might have a better chance at snow in the near future.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/click.php?tt=ml&amp;ti=65421&amp;pw=29053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/gbi\/10239\/65421\/23393\/29053\/image.jpg\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It snowed last weekend for the first time in a long, long time. Sure, it was only about 8&#8243;, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-2075","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\/2075","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=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}