{"id":360,"date":"2009-03-07T16:43:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T22:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2009-03-07T16:43:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T22:43:32","slug":"mini-tr-everybody-wang-chung-tonight-3609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/mini-tr-everybody-wang-chung-tonight-3609\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-TR  Everybody Wang Chung Tonight  3.6.09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Luke and I searched for some halfway decent snow on the Wang Chung face of Axtel.  As some of my previous posts have mentioned, we&#8217;re in a dry, warm, windy, and cloudy weather phase here, so finding good snow has gotten tough to come by.  Since the Wang Chung face is high and a north aspect, I guessed that we would be able to find some lightly wind textured ripply recycled pow (that&#8217;s the best way to describe it).  That&#8217;s exactly what we found on the face, with the lower apron being marginal windboard snow.  Photo from &#8217;07:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biglines.com\/photosv2\/2007\/04\/120x120\/biglines_75043.jpg\" alt=\"axtel\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We ended up trending skier&#8217;s left and avoiding the Eraser chute, assuming the snow quality there would be poor.  Another group skied the Pencil chute at about the same time and said that conditions were &#8220;scary&#8221; due to a hard and variable snowpack.  Not many photos on yet another graybird day, but here&#8217;s Luke:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/?action=view&#038;current=WangChung3-6-09004.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/WangChung3-6-09004.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/?action=view&#038;current=WangChung3-6-09016.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/WangChung3-6-09016.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/?action=view&#038;current=WangChung3-6-09018.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/WangChung3-6-09018.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Luke and I searched for some halfway decent snow on the Wang Chung face of Axtel. As some of<\/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-360","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\/360","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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}