{"id":417974,"date":"2015-11-27T15:29:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T22:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=417974"},"modified":"2015-11-30T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T03:55:41","slug":"crested-butte-conditions-late-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/crested-butte-conditions-late-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Crested Butte Conditions &#8211; late November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mid to late November has brought some decent snowfall to the Crested Butte area.  But, it&#8217;s also brought a lot of wind.  Like Front Range style winds.  For an area that sees very little wind affect compared to the rest of the state, this has taken some adjustments.  Wind-loading and wind-slabs are prominent in much of our snowpack and have made it somewhat fragile.  Yet, the moderate avalanche rating produces a fairly false sense of stability.  I don&#8217;t know why they got rid of the &#8220;pockets of considerable&#8221; in ratings over the last couple of years.  But, that&#8217;s what we have right now.  I call it &#8220;scary moderate&#8221;. You never know when you&#8217;ll step on that weak spot that could send the whole snowpack crashing down.  So, watch out.<\/p>\n<p>That said, there is good and fairly stable snow to be had below treeline, if you know where to go.  Here&#8217;s a few shots from some recent adventures in the backcountry.<\/p>\n<p>Alex during our three-lap day at Pittsburg.  Still a little thin, but alright.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_0591Alex.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Alex Riedman skiing in Crested Butte backcountry\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_0575Alex.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" alt=\"Alex Riedman backcountry skiing in Crested Butte.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Randy catching some pow.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_0676Randy.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" alt=\"snowboarding in Crested Butte backcountry\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more READ MORE!--><\/p>\n<p>Mark, the other half of the tele contingent.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_1101Mark.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Mark Robbins backcountry skiing in Crested Butte.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_0769Mark.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"595\" alt=\"Mark Robbins backcountry skiing in Crested Butte.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_1058mark.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" alt=\"Mark Robbins backcountry skiing in Crested Butte.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another day, in Skippy&#8217;s Secret Stash.  Skippy himself.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_1122Skippy.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" alt=\"Sean Crossen backcountry skiing in Crested Butte.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_1179Alex.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" alt=\"Alex Riedman backcountry skiing in Crested Butte.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_1216Alex.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" alt=\"Alex Riedman backcountry skiing in Crested Butte.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_1334Alex.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" alt=\"Alex Riedman backcountry skiing in Crested Butte.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_1272Alex.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Alex Riedman backcountry skiing in Crested Butte.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_1319Alex.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" alt=\"Alex Riedman backcountry skiing in Crested Butte.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another day in the backcountry, up the Slate River Road.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_1350skintrack.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Skin track, backcountry skiing in Crested Butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scott milking some pow on his second day out for the year.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_1370scott.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" alt=\"Scott Yoast backcountry snowboarding in Crested Butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/cbendofnov2015\/IMG_1422scott.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" alt=\"Scott Yost backcountry snowboarding in Crested Butte.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All-in-all, it&#8217;s shaping up to be a decent year in Crested Butte.  But, we&#8217;ve gotta let these persistent slabs calm down!<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=1430&amp;p=23393&amp;pw=29053\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid to late November has brought some decent snowfall to the Crested Butte area. But, it&#8217;s also brought a lot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backcountry-skiing","category-crested-butte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417974","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=417974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417993,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417974\/revisions\/417993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}