{"id":2209,"date":"2012-02-16T20:15:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T02:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2012-02-16T20:31:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T02:31:59","slug":"scenics-and-snowmos-2-15-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/scenics-and-snowmos-2-15-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenics and Snowmo&#8217;s  2.15.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I pulled some double duty with a tour up the Red Lady Glades followed by some uber-deep snowmobiling up Kebler Pass in the afternoon.  With 20-40&#8243; of new snow in the past few days in the Crested butte backcountry, the Red Lady Glades seemed like a good, safe choice since the angle can be kept below 30 degrees or so the whole way down.  It&#8217;s far from my favorite run in the area, and I felt quite a bit of jealousy for those who chose to ski steeper backcountry runs on the same day.  No doubt about it, I&#8217;ve been feeling like a giant wuss this season- but unfortunately the CO snowpack seems to be giving daily reminders that playing it conservative is a good strategy this season.  <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t even bother taking any photos on the descent- but it was a beautiful day to gaze upon Crested Butte:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8866.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, snowmobiling flat meadows is a whole lot more fun than skiing them, so we headed out, got stuck a bunch, and had an absolute blast doing it.  It was deep:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8878.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8879.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Just a beautiful afternoon in CO:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8873.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8884.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We know it sounds like a broken record, but stay safe out there friends.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/click.php?tt=ml&amp;ti=65501&amp;pw=29053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/gbi\/10921\/65501\/23393\/29053\/image.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I pulled some double duty with a tour up the Red Lady Glades followed by some uber-deep snowmobiling up<\/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-2209","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\/2209","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=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}