{"id":432,"date":"2009-04-24T17:12:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T23:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2009-04-24T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T23:12:50","slug":"ruby-chute-42309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/ruby-chute-42309\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby Chute 4.23.09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruby Chute<br \/>\nRuby Peak 12,644&#8242;<br \/>\nTom, Frank<br \/>\nRuby Chute February 2007:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biglines.com\/photosv2\/2007\/02\/120x120\/biglines_71640.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally reaching the conclusion that even the highest north faces were no longer holding powder snow, Tom and I turned our attention to skiing different aspects with nice corn snow.  One descent that I haven&#8217;t done in quite some time is the E facing Ruby Chute on the mountain of the same name near Irwin.  With our snowmobiles getting us right to the bottom of the route, we booted up the easier N ridge between Ruby and Owen in just over half an hour and geared up.  For the first time in a long time, I put my harness on, as Ruby chute often holds a fairly large frozen waterfall which is better negotiated with a quick rappel.  Happily, this year the landing zone was filled in nicely and the corn was perfect, so we went ahead and jumped it.<\/p>\n<p>Tom on the summit with the Rocky Mountain Biological Labratory&#8217;s weather station:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Ruby%20Chute%204-23-09\/?action=view&#038;current=RubyChute4-23-09001.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Ruby%20Chute%204-23-09\/RubyChute4-23-09001.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom negotiating the upper part of the route:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Ruby%20Chute%204-23-09\/?action=view&#038;current=RubyChute4-23-09008.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Ruby%20Chute%204-23-09\/RubyChute4-23-09008.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Ruby%20Chute%204-23-09\/?action=view&#038;current=RubyChute4-23-09015.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Ruby%20Chute%204-23-09\/RubyChute4-23-09015.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom setting himself up for the icefall.  Sadly, I missed him in mid-air:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Ruby%20Chute%204-23-09\/?action=view&#038;current=RubyChute4-23-09019.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Ruby%20Chute%204-23-09\/RubyChute4-23-09019.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And cruising back to the snowmobiles&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Ruby%20Chute%204-23-09\/?action=view&#038;current=RubyChute4-23-09025.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Ruby%20Chute%204-23-09\/RubyChute4-23-09025.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just another great day&#8230;  So psyched not to have to use a rope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruby Chute Ruby Peak 12,644&#8242; Tom, Frank Ruby Chute February 2007: Finally reaching the conclusion that even the highest north<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backcountry-skiing","category-crested-butte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}