{"id":994,"date":"2010-02-24T23:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=994"},"modified":"2018-04-20T06:21:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T12:21:52","slug":"road-trip-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/road-trip-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Road trip update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been busy skiing, traveling, and enjoying our experience on this road trip, so sorry we haven&#8217;t been posting much.  But, tonight we had a bit of free time and I thought I&#8217;d post up a few pics of our trip so far.<\/p>\n<p>Stop 1: Bridger Bowl, Montana.  We enjoyed spectacular terrain and good snow.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bridger_2010\/IMG_2270bridger.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Skiing at Bridger Bowl. \" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/bridger_2010\/IMG_2364brit.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing at Bridger Bowl, Montana. \" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stop 2: Whitefish, Montana.  Two days of skiing the resort and slackcountry allowed us to explore some good terrain.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_2832frank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_2832frank-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Skiing at Whitefish, Montana\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-433075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_2832frank-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_2832frank-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_2832frank-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more READ MORE!--><\/p>\n<p>But, we also enjoyed the lofty feeling (town of Whitefish and the lake below)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/whitefish_feb2010\/IMG_2454whitefish.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Skiing at Whitefish, Montana.\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And we admired the peaks of Glacier National Park, with hopes of coming back some spring to check this area out further.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/whitefish_feb2010\/IMG_2431glaciernp.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Glacier National Park as seen from Whitefish, Montana. \" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stop 3: Fernie, British Columbia.  The skies couldn&#8217;t be more blue, which is typical in Colorado, but not so much in BC.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/fernie_feb2010\/IMG_2586scenic-1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing at Fernie, British Columbia. \" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our friends took us out on a good backcountry tour, where we slayed these lines.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/fernie_feb2010\/IMG_2702ladders.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing at Fernie, British Columbia. \" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/fernie_feb2010\/IMG_2611frank-1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing at Fernie, British Columbia. \" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stop 4: Kicking Horse.  Only 10 years old and this resort has a lot to offer.  I was impressed over and over by the terrain choices, both in and out of the ski area boundary.<\/p>\n<p>Areas like these were plentiful.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2733ridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2733ridge-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Backcountry skiing near Kicking Horse\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-433137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2733ridge-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2733ridge-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2733ridge-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And we hit up a nice backcountry couloir.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/kickinghorse_feb2010\/IMG_2828frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Skiing at Kicking Horse, British Columbia. \" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So far, it&#8217;s been an awesome trip \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Our trip continues to Roger&#8217;s Pass, Revelstoke, and Red Mountain.  We&#8217;ll do another update or two along the way.  And stay tuned for full TR&#8217;s from each segment of our trip!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Montana-Canada Road Trip Blog Posts<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/road-trip-update\/\">Road Trip Update<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/14erskiers-goes-roadtripping\/\">Itinerary<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/tr-bridger-bowl-2202010\/\">Bridger Bowl<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/tr-whitefish-mt-2-21-10-2-22-10\/\">Whitefish<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/tr-fernie-2232010\/\">Fernie<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/tr-kicking-horse-2242010\/\">Kicking Horse<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/tr-rogers-pass\/\">Roger&#8217;s Pass<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/revelstoke-mountain-resort-2-26-10\/\">Revelstoke<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/tr-whitewater-and-nelson-2272010\/\">Nelson and Whitewater<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/red-mountain-rossland-bc-3-1-10\/\">Red Mountain and Rossland<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> update of our skiing road trip to Montana and Canada, midway through our fantastic ski adventures to Bridger Bowl, Whitefish, Fernie &#038; Kicking Horse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,27,14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backcountry-skiing","category-canada","category-montana","category-resort-skiing","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","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=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433140,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/433140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}