{"id":420030,"date":"2016-03-23T17:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T23:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=420030"},"modified":"2016-03-23T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T23:55:35","slug":"tr-not-traveled-steamboat-backcountry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/tr-not-traveled-steamboat-backcountry\/","title":{"rendered":"TR: Not-so traveled Steamboat backcountry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Pass is one of the most heavily hit areas of the Steamboat backcountry skiing zones.  Soda Mountain is the icon &#8211; Heck, there&#8217;s even a cat-skiing operation there.  At first glance, the zone can appear over used.  But, if you think outside the box and look just a little further, you can find your quiet places.<\/p>\n<p>Larry and I went to check out a zone he&#8217;d been scoping for quite some time, adjacent to Soda Mountain.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/larrysworld_27feb2016\/IMG_0292LarrysWorld.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Steamboat backcountry skiing near Soda Mountain.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It had been at least a week since the last fresh snow in the Steamboat backcountry, but it was still untouched, untracked, and left for the taking.  Larry drops in.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/larrysworld_27feb2016\/IMG_0078Larry.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Larry Fontaine backcountry skiing in Steamboat.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/larrysworld_27feb2016\/IMG_0105Larry.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Larry Fontaine backcountry skiing in Steamboat.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more READ MORE!--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/larrysworld_27feb2016\/IMG_0191larry.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"611\" alt=\"Larry Fontaine backcountry skiing in Steamboat.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After hours of clouds, the sun came out to greet us.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/larrysworld_27feb2016\/IMG_0240Larry.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Larry Fontaine backcountry skiing in Steamboat.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/larrysworld_27feb2016\/IMG_0259Larry.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Larry Fontaine backcountry skiing in Steamboat.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/larrysworld_27feb2016\/IMG_0271Larry.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Larry Fontaine backcountry skiing in Steamboat.\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Right now, we&#8217;re in a big storm cycle.  But, when the powder dries up, and your stashes get skied, remember that there&#8217;s likely more powder out there.  You just need to look a little further \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=478345&amp;p=23393&amp;pw=29053\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Pass is one of the most heavily hit areas of the Steamboat backcountry skiing zones. Soda Mountain is the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backcountry-skiing","category-park-range-steamboat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420030","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=420030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420034,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420030\/revisions\/420034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}