{"id":6177,"date":"2013-10-15T01:38:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T07:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=6177"},"modified":"2013-10-15T17:58:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T23:58:49","slug":"day-2-10-13-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/day-2-10-13-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2.  10.13.13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After such a great first day of the season, we made plans for a longer day a little bit deeper in the backcountry.  This area has been good to us in other earlier seasons, so we felt confident that we would once again have good conditions.  The valley showed us lots of choices:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/67061.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The view from the top showed us even more opportunities- all the more impressive given that it&#8217;s still the first half of October.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/6738.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/6739.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more READ MORE--><\/p>\n<p>The snow at the top of our line, however, looked grim.  Overnight winds had stripped the snow in some areas, while forming hardslabs in other areas.  Worse yet, we found rotten sugary snow, something we hadn&#8217;t found the day before.  It was tough to slog all the way out there just to turn around and ski down a ridge, but that&#8217;s what we had to do.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/stand-top.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2881.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jenny-Treasury-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While we couldn&#8217;t ski our intended line, the bowl lower down had a better snowpack without the exposure, and the snow was every bit as creamy as we had found the day before.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/67791.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_2922brit.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2922brit\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_2922brit.jpg 800w, https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_2922brit-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/6788.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jenny-Treasury-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The supportable snowpack gave us plenty of confidence:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jenny-Treasury-4-copy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jenny-Treasury-1-copy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly good snow even down low:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2944.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/6871.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It snowed most of the day today (10\/14), so things are getting even better.  Winter is here!<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=64209&amp;p=23393&amp;pw=29053\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After such a great first day of the season, we made plans for a longer day a little bit deeper<\/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":[48,36,49,89,88,50,47],"class_list":["post-6177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backcountry-skiing","category-crested-butte","tag-colorado","tag-crested-butte-2","tag-schofield","tag-ski","tag-skiing","tag-skinning","tag-snowpack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177","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=6177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6195,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions\/6195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}