{"id":3873,"date":"2012-09-21T02:29:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T08:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2012-09-21T21:06:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T03:06:51","slug":"axtell-after-work-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/axtell-after-work-august-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Axtell after work- August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, Brittany had just started school.  It was a Friday night and she had a hankering to do something good after work.  So, we climbed Axtell, and we had a few nice photos to share. Better late than never.<\/p>\n<p>We drove up Splain&#8217;s gulch for a ways before parking where the road switchbacks. It was already raining a little, but since most of Axtell is below treeline, we gave it a go anyway.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/501.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/505.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the end, we caught a perfect break in the weather and it made for some amazing views from the summit ridge.  4th bowl and Whetstone behind:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/522.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more Read more--><\/p>\n<p>Name those peaks.  Seriously, let&#8217;s hear some guesses:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/531.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3870\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/axtell-after-work-august-2012\/535-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3870\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/535.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"535\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/535.jpg 800w, https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/535-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Crested Butte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/556.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/scrambling-perfection-averys-red-diamond-face-8-19-12\/\">Avery<\/a> and surrounding peaks:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/562.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was an awesome day to spend an evening, and we really lucked out on the weather since it started dumping rain not long after we got back to the car.  We climbed Axtell from Splain&#8217;s in under two and a half hours, so keep it in mind the next time you&#8217;re looking for a quick peak hike.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=138997&amp;p=23393&amp;pw=29053\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, Brittany had just started school. It was a Friday night and she had a hankering to<\/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":[5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crested-butte","category-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","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=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}