{"id":415390,"date":"2015-07-01T16:02:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T22:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=415390"},"modified":"2015-06-30T20:51:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T02:51:11","slug":"tr-hurricane-peak-19-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/tr-hurricane-peak-19-june-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"TR: Hurricane Peak (19 June 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The skiing on <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/tr-bonita-peak-19-june-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bonita Peak<\/a> that morning was so good, and the breeze was keeping the snow from getting too soft.  So, we decided there was more skiing to be done that day. The west-facing lines on Hurricane Peak seemed like the next best choice!<br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/IMG_4420hurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The south east side of Hurricane Peak<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Climbing Hurricane with Bonita Peak behind.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/DSCN8277climbinghurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Climbing Hurricane Peak with Bonita Peak behind.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We found that climbing the snow gullies up Hurricane Peak was easy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/IMG_4815ClimbingHurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Climbing Hurricane Peak to go backcountry skiing.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Josh and Frank approaching the summit.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/IMG_4820FrankJoshApproachingHurricaneSummit.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Approaching the summit of Hurricane Peak to go backcountry skiing. \" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more READ MORE!--><\/p>\n<p>Natalie approaching the summit on Hurricane.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/IMG_4833NatalieApproachingHurricaneSummit.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Views from Hurricane Peak in the San Juans. \" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost there&#8230;  Storm Peak in the distance.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/IMG_4069ClimbingHurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Near the summit of Hurricane Peak.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frank on the summit.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/IMG_4836FrankSummitHurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Frank Konsella ready for backcountry skiing on Hurricane Peak. \" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We downclimbed a bit from the summit to find our way into the west-facing gullies of Hurricane.  There, like Bonita, we had some pretty good skiing too!  Natalia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/IMG_4910NatalieSkiHurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" alt=\"Natalie Moran backcountry skiing on Hurricane Peak. \" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/IMG_4957NatalieSkiHurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"N\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/11538966_NatalieHurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" alt=\"n\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Me.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/10321145_10207312026261665_BrittanySkiHurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Brittany Konsella backcountry skiing on Hurricane Peak. \" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Josh.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/IMG_5164JoshSkiHurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Josh Macak backcountry skiing on Hurricane Peak. \" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/IMG_5204JoshSkiHurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Josh Macak backcountry skiing on Hurricane Peak. \" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frank.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/IMG_5030frankskihurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"592\" alt=\"Frank Konsella backcountry skiing on Hurricane Peak. \" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/IMG_5051FrankskiHurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" alt=\"Frank Konsella backcountry skiing on Hurricane Peak.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bonitahurricane_19june2015\/IMG_5064frankSkiHurricane.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Frank Konsella backcountry skiing on Hurricane Peak.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a good second ski for the day &#8211; great corn and fantastic views.  This Ross Basin area is full of backcountry skiing potential and was a great way to end our 3-day jaunt in the San Juans!<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=134657&amp;p=23393&amp;pw=29053\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skiing on Bonita Peak that morning was so good, and the breeze was keeping the snow from getting too<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backcountry-skiing","category-san-juans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415390","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415390"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415405,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415390\/revisions\/415405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}