{"id":941,"date":"2010-01-19T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T04:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2010-01-20T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T15:41:05","slug":"tr-queen-basin-17-jan-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/tr-queen-basin-17-jan-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"TR: Queen Basin (17 Jan 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s high pressure worked to stabilize our thin snowpack, but did little to improve the condition of the snow from a skiing stand-point. With a couple of friends visiting from Denver, we decided to go on a fun day of slogging. If the snow is less than desirable for skiing, why not just go on an adventure?<\/p>\n

We headed out early in the morning, from the Gothic Rd winter closure: Jarrett, Adam, Hillary, Jeff, Frank, and I.<\/p>\n

Skinning, with the mountain we would climb behind.
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Jarrett and Adam.
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Jeff, Hillary, and Jarrett with the ski area and Whetstone behind.
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Heading up the ridge.
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This looks like a fun line to ski in more snow.
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East face of Gothic.
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The middle part of the ridge was steep and icy- a bit treacherous. But we all made it to our rendezvous point.
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Jeff and me.
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We continued up the ridge until we got to this- Queen Basin.
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Hillary approaching the crest of the ridge.
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From there, we decided to split our group of six figuring it was safer to have two groups of three ski separate couloirs down to the basin’s bottom.<\/p>\n

Adam, Jeff, and Hillary opted to drop into the first chute that came across our path. Adam (photos by Jeff)
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Hillary.
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Jarrett, Frank, and I headed along the ridge, searching for a different line. We spotted some ptarmigans along the way.
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Frank and Jarrett.
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Me.
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Finally, we dropped in. Frank lead the way.
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My turn.
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Jarrett.
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Hillary and Adam captured it best (photo by Jeff).
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The basin bottom had some flat, but good skiing- recycled powder.
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One more look at Queen Basin before entering the trees.
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After traversing skiers left for awhile we found a nice opening to ski. Adam.
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Me.
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We made our way down to the Copper Creek \/ East Maroon Pass trail and followed that back to the town of Gothic. From there, we slogged up Gothic road back to the trailhead.
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4000 + vert, 8 hours of adventure. Good day, good group, good times, good slog. That pretty much sums it up \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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