{"id":2722,"date":"2017-01-15T19:14:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T03:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2017-01-21T19:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T03:27:42","slug":"avalanche-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2017\/01\/15\/avalanche-training","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the snow in the Sierras, some friends and I decided to take an avalanche level one course to learn how to be safe in the backcountry. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We got a good refresh on trip planning and avalanche rescue techniques, and a newfound appreciation for how complex snow science can be. I was already pretty humbled by the power of the mountains, and now have a more conservative understanding of the stability of what we are skiing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_4777.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_4777-225x300.jpg\" alt=\" \"width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_4777-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_4777-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_4777-203x270.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Skinning up Andesite Ridge<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_4780.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_4780-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_4780-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_4780-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_4780-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_4780-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Castle Peak Trailhead<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both\"><\/p>\n<p>Also got a few good days in at Sugar Bowl; the mountain rips when there&#8217;s fresh powder.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/665\/32293264805_e930e3a1cd_b.jpg\" target='_blank' title=\"Empty Chair\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/665\/32293264805_e930e3a1cd_m.jpg\" alt=\"Empty Chair\" class=\"alignnone \"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Empty Chair<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/775\/31916806160_52805bf256_b.jpg\" target='_blank' title=\"Gingerbread House\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/775\/31916806160_52805bf256_m.jpg\" alt=\"Gingerbread House\" class=\"alignnone \"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Gingerbread House<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the snow in the Sierras, some friends and I decided to take an avalanche level one course to learn how to be safe in the backcountry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-skiing"],"geo":{"latitude":39.327961,"longitude":-120.1832504,"description":"Truckee, California, 96162, US"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2734,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}