{"id":432436,"date":"2018-04-04T22:44:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T04:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=432436"},"modified":"2018-04-04T22:47:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T04:47:48","slug":"tr-playground-20-21-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/tr-playground-20-21-march-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"TR: Our Playground (20 &#038; 21 March 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This winter has been unseasonably warm.  But, just as the calendar turned to spring, our weather returned to winter.  Cold temperatures and fresh snow hovered in our mountains and it felt more like early February than the first days of spring.<\/p>\n<p>But, with the change of seasons came a more stable snowpack which we were eager to step out into more aggressive backcountry skiing terrain &#8211; putting one of the sketchiest winters in our past.  To our winter Playground we must go!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180321_214708Playground.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180321_214708Playground-684x800.jpg\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" width=\"684\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-432479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180321_214708Playground-684x800.jpg 684w, https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180321_214708Playground-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180321_214708Playground-768x898.jpg 768w, https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180321_214708Playground.jpg 1448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I head out there on the first day of spring with our friends Mark &amp; Sam.  Yep, it felt like winter.  In fact, we kept talking about how cold it felt all day.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180320_120208SpringIsWinter.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We pulled off a couple of laps in the Playground, but I only caught a few pictures of Mark:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180320_122615_046_01Mark.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more READ MORE!--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180320_122615_050_01Mark.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180320_122615_090_01Mark.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180320_122615_066_01Mark.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was so good that the next day Frank and I went back for more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Frank on the first run:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180321_114303_061_01Frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"633\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180321_114303_079_01Frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Me.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/SavedImage_0321181141_271Brittany.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2nd Lap.  Me.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/0321181258bBrittany.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/0321181258cBrittany.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/0321181258eBrittany.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frank:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180321_125447_064_01Frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"634\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180321_130204_053_01Frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180321_130204_066_01Frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180321_130204_085_01Frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180321_130204_100_01Frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180321_130211Frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"631\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/playground_march2018\/20180321_1302121Frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"623\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing in Crested Butte - the Playground\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We left the Playground reluctant to head into work, with smiles on our faces, and happy to be able to venture safely into a little more aggressive backcountry ski terrain.  Here&#8217;s to a great start to spring skiing, and may there be many more great days to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left the Playground reluctant to head into work, with smiles on our faces, and happy to be able to venture safely into a little more aggressive terrain.  Here&#8217;s to a great start to spring skiing!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432436","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\/432436","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=432436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432482,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432436\/revisions\/432482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}