{"id":419109,"date":"2016-01-21T22:45:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T05:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=419109"},"modified":"2016-01-27T22:36:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T05:36:45","slug":"upper-slate-river-backcountry-skiing-1-14-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/upper-slate-river-backcountry-skiing-1-14-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Slate River Backcountry Skiing 1.14.16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last week has been kind to the Crested Butte backcountry.  While weather forecasts haven&#8217;t always looked that promising, each little storm seems to be overproducing and as a result, the Irwin area has received six feet of snow this week.  A week ago, however, the storms were just starting and we were picking up the leftovers from the previous storm.  With low visibility, we stayed in the trees.  The previous storms had finally shed their loads, so some parts of the trees were a bit tree-bombed, but all you had to do was ski straight and go for the big face shots in the open.  On to some photos&#8230;  Brittany, showing how steep it is:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/upper-slate-1-14-16\/6755.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Brittany Konsella Crested Butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Me:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/upper-slate-1-14-16\/4522.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"611\" alt=\"powder skiing\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The area we were skiing has several short steep pitches with some fun options.  Here is Mark Robbins demonstrating fun:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/upper-slate-1-14-16\/4470.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"608\" alt=\"pillow skiing crested butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more READ MORE!--><\/p>\n<p>And demonstrating tele:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/upper-slate-1-14-16\/4413.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"mark robbins skiing crested butte\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Me again:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/upper-slate-1-14-16\/4346.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"641\" alt=\"Frank Konsella Slate\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/upper-slate-1-14-16\/4576.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" alt=\"Slate river hybrid skiing\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did I mention it was steep&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/upper-slate-1-14-16\/6757.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Black Diamond Zealot\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brittany in the pow again:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/upper-slate-1-14-16\/6787.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stay safe and enjoy the powder.<\/p>\n<p>Our beacon of choice:<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/product_ad_widget\/paw.php?pawid=112786&amp;pw=29053&amp;output=js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last week has been kind to the Crested Butte backcountry. While weather forecasts haven&#8217;t always looked that promising, each<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":419111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419109","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\/419109","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=419109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419170,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419109\/revisions\/419170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}