{"id":5216,"date":"2013-05-08T22:33:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T04:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=5216"},"modified":"2013-05-08T22:33:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T04:33:23","slug":"gothic-east-face-5-5-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/gothic-east-face-5-5-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Gothic East Face  5.5.13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gothic&#8217;s East face is one of the Crested Butte area&#8217;s most well-known classic lines.  From the ski area, the face looks Alaskan in character, as if it was full of flutes and spines.  In reality, the face isn&#8217;t as fierce as its appearance makes it out to be, though it remains an incredibly rewarding descent.  It certainly isn&#8217;t as tough as Google Earth makes it out to be:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/googleearthgothic.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chris Miller, Pete Sowar and I headed out from Washington Gulch, which is still snow covered from the winter closure- just barely.  The standard ascent route looked pretty melted out, so we made our way to the looker&#8217;s right of the spoon to ascend what some people call the knife.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gothic-East-Face-5-2-ps.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With some high clouds, we had plenty of time to enjoy the summit before Pete jumped in:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/702.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more Read more--><\/p>\n<p>Chris:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gothic-East-Face-6-2-ps.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pete:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/711.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frank:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gothic-East-Face-15-ps.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chris:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/728.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/754.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pete:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/777.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Normally, you ski right down the upper face and into the lower choke, but that route was fairly melted out.  So we traversed to the right a couple of rock ribs over- which is a terrific route in its own right.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/799.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frank:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gothic-East-Face-12-ps.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chris:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/824.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/831.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The apron was great corn skiing, though the dust layers were definitely out, as you can see from our tracks.  Happily, we&#8217;re getting snow again, so the dirty snow is getting covered up once again.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/850.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=130761&amp;p=23393&amp;pw=29053\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gothic&#8217;s East face is one of the Crested Butte area&#8217;s most well-known classic lines. From the ski area, the face<\/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-5216","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\/5216","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=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}