{"id":6436,"date":"2013-12-08T22:34:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T04:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=6436"},"modified":"2013-12-08T22:38:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T04:38:37","slug":"before-the-storm-11-30-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/before-the-storm-11-30-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Storm  11.30.13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had another great week, snowfall wise, here in Crested Butte.  A 1-2 punch of storms have left things very white, if not a little cold.  Before the storm we had some great turns on recycled powder in the backcountry in an area I hadn&#8217;t skied in roughly 15 years.  The last time I skied Coney&#8217;s, I was on trekkers, alpine boots, and 205 GS skis.  Unfortunately, it had snowed a ton and with that gear and the relatively mellow slope angle of Coney&#8217;s, we couldn&#8217;t even make any turns.  After that experience I vowed that I wouldn&#8217;t ski coney&#8217;s again.  However, with some trepidation regarding snow stability elsewhere, I returned to Coney&#8217;s.  It was better than I remember it&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/9569.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/268.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more READ MORE--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/245.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gothic behind:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/9589.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our new friend Donny Roth:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/313.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And our old friend Liz Sampey:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/324.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/327.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As beautiful as the snow surface was, it was comprised of surface facets which may prove to be a problem for a while.  They made for great skiing, however:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/9624.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mountain is skiing great, and there is still time to get $19 tickets.  Just click below:<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=28737&amp;p=23393&amp;pw=29053\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had another great week, snowfall wise, here in Crested Butte. A 1-2 punch of storms have left things very<\/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-6436","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\/6436","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=6436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6440,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions\/6440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}