{"id":421242,"date":"2016-05-30T05:34:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T11:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=421242"},"modified":"2016-05-30T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T16:25:31","slug":"dream-stream-5-14-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/dream-stream-5-14-16\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Stream  5.14.16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After skiing the <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/lightning-bolt-couloir-5-13-16\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lightning Bolt<\/a> the day before, Brittany and I decided to tackle the Dream Stream the following day.  The Dream Stream is the prominent avalanche path that is visible on the side of Ajax Mountain from downtown Telluride.  Every few years, a Youtube video will pop up from this slide path when Telluride Helitrax bombs the route and a massive avalanche pours off the mountainside.  Thankfully, with stable spring conditions we weren&#8217;t too worried about that, at least first thing in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Like the route the day before, we had great views of Telluride and the box canyon that it sits in:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/dream-stream-5-14-16\/2592.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Telluride and box canyon\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The route passes by mining ruins before reaching the summit of Ajax.  Clouds were starting to develop, so we didn&#8217;t have great visibility but conditions were pretty prime corn skiing.  Brittany:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/dream-stream-5-14-16\/2448.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"skiing the dream stream\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more READ MORE!--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/dream-stream-5-14-16\/2483.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"corn skiing dream stream telluride\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Dream Stream is a pretty spectacular spot to make some turns, the views don&#8217;t get more spectacular.  Frank:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/dream-stream-5-14-16\/3481.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"telluride skiing\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eventually you hit the actual slide path and begin making your way down as far as you care to.  The route ends in a cliff, so we turned around and reascended Ajax.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/dream-stream-5-14-16\/3517.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"dream stream run\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back on the other side of Ajax, we found similarly good corn skiing, though it was a bit past its prime at the bottom.  Brittany:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/dream-stream-5-14-16\/2541.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"telluride corn skiing\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A slight detour at the bottom of our route led us to Bridal Veil falls and the power station.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/dream-stream-5-14-16\/3630.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"bridal veil power house\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again- miners were way crazier and tougher than any of us.  So cool to make turns while feeling the spray of the falls:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/dream-stream-5-14-16\/2610.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"skiing by bridal veil falls in telluride\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another great line in the San Juans- thanks to our new friends for showing us around!<\/p>\n<p>Great deal from The Feed:<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=387150&amp;p=23393&amp;pw=29053\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After skiing the Lightning Bolt the day before, Brittany and I decided to tackle the Dream Stream the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":421243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421242","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\/421242","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=421242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421244,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421242\/revisions\/421244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}