{"id":8410,"date":"2014-06-24T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T18:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2014-06-24T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T18:26:30","slug":"june-skiing-tr-baldy-east-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/june-skiing-tr-baldy-east-face\/","title":{"rendered":"June Skiing TR: Baldy East Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After heading up the Copper Creek valley a few different times, we were looking for a change &#8211; Looking toward a place where access was easier.  While several options came to mind, Baldy&#8217;s access from Washington Gulch is usually good this time of year.  And quick glances at Baldy from town showed that it was still well-covered. <\/p>\n<p>The night before, it thunderstormed.  I hoped for the best, and woke up to an inch or two dusting of fresh snow on several peaks above treeline.  Baldy was one of them.  Jen, Ben, and I headed up Washington Gulch road, parking where we met the snow.  We gradually ascended the southeast slopes and ridge to the top of our intended line.  Ben, with Baldy in view.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_9514skinning-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Baldy near Crested Butte, CO\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_9514skinning-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_9514skinning-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The views of the valley from Baldy are always amazing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/baldy_12jun2014\/IMG_9527valley.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Looking down the valley\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The north side of Gothic Mountain in view.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_9520gothic-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Gothic Mountain near Crested Butte, CO\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_9520gothic-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_9520gothic-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Snowmass and Capital in the distance.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/baldy_12jun2014\/IMG_9529snowmass.jpg\" width=\"800\" alt=\"Snowmass and Capital seen from Baldy\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more READ MORE--><\/p>\n<p>Yule Pass with Purple on the left and Cinnamon and Treasury on the right.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/baldy_12jun2014\/IMG_9532yulepass.jpg\" width=\"800\" alt=\"Yule Pass with Purple, Cinnamon, and Treasury\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jen and I ready to ski.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/baldy_12jun2014\/IMG_9540jennybrit.jpg\" width=\"800\" alt=\"Brittany Konsella &#038; Jenny Veilleux ready to ski\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had decided to ski Baldy&#8217;s east facing slopes.  This picture shows a view of our intended run.  Still a lot of vert for June!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/baldy_12jun2014\/IMG_9537skirun.jpg\" width=\"800\" alt=\"Baldy East Face ski run\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The skiing was quite good for June too. Jenny.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/baldy_12jun2014\/IMG_9547jenny.jpg\" width=\"800\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/baldy_12jun2014\/IMG_9565jenny.jpg\" width=\"800\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/baldy_12jun2014\/IMG_9615jen.jpg\" width=\"800\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ben.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/baldy_12jun2014\/IMG_9628ben.jpg\" width=\"800\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/baldy_12jun2014\/IMG_9634ben.jpg\" width=\"800\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A look back up at the East Face of Baldy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_9651BaldyEastFace-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Baldy East Face ski run\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_9651BaldyEastFace-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_9651BaldyEastFace-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though we&#8217;ve been hitting the bike pretty hard as of late, the turns are still worthy.  I&#8217;m pretty sure we&#8217;ll be milking it until the 4th of July \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After heading up the Copper Creek valley a few different times, we were looking for a change &#8211; Looking toward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8410","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\/8410","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=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8437,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions\/8437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}