{"id":2202,"date":"2012-02-13T22:21:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T04:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2012-02-13T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T04:21:09","slug":"more-from-the-crested-butte-backcountry-2-11-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/more-from-the-crested-butte-backcountry-2-11-12\/","title":{"rendered":"More From the Crested Butte Backcountry  2.11.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a good day in the backcountry last week, I headed back to the same zone with Tom Runcie last Friday, and again on Saturday with Sydney Dickinson and Brittany.  Without a doubt, conditions were as good as they&#8217;ve been this season, although avalanche concerns remain very high, as they will throughout this season.  We had about a foot of fresh today in Crested Butte, and double that in the backcountry, so I doubt I&#8217;ll be visiting the backcountry again before setting off to Alaska on Saturday.  Our thoughts go out to the friends and family of Colorado&#8217;s fifth avalanche fatality of the season, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watchnewspapers.com\/bookmark\/17518264\/article-Avalanche+Kills+Sidecountry+Snowboarder+in+Bear+Creek\">today outside of Telluride<\/a>.  Stay safe everyone!<\/p>\n<p>It was a gorgeous day on Friday:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8742.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8777.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more Read more--><\/p>\n<p>A sequence of Tom:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8744.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8747.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8756.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Usually all these little trees are under several feet of snow.  Not this year- but at least they give you something to turn around:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8770.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sydney:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8809.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brittany:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8819.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8825.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It felt great to ski some soft snow again.  It looks like we&#8217;ve got a little snow in the forecast for the next week or so, so keep your fingers (but not your skis) crossed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/click.php?tt=ml&amp;ti=1332&amp;pw=29053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/gbi\/10060\/1332\/23393\/29053\/image.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a good day in the backcountry last week, I headed back to the same zone with Tom Runcie last<\/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":[3,5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backcountry-skiing","category-crested-butte","category-respect-the-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","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=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}