{"id":131,"date":"2011-01-13T16:10:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T00:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2011-01-13T16:10:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T00:10:03","slug":"stevens-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Stevens Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend we decided to play in the snow on a different mountain in the area.\u00c2\u00a0 <a title=\"Stevens Pass\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenspass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stevens Pass<\/a> is about two hours northeast of us in the Cascades.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of the drive is a very gradual climb with the mountains looming ahead, then rising about 3000 feet in the last thirty minutes or so.\u00c2\u00a0 Because we could see so much of the body of each mountain, we could very clearly make out the snow line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4890_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-132\" title=\"IMG_4890_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4890_sm-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4890_sm-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4890_sm.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Of course it was raining below and snowing in the higher elevations.\u00c2\u00a0 I love it when the trees are &#8220;frosted&#8221; like this.\u00c2\u00a0 The bare trees were the most spectacular, almost glowing in the new snow, but of course that kind of thing doesn&#8217;t come across in photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4894_clr_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-133\" title=\"IMG_4894_clr_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4894_clr_sm-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4894_clr_sm-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4894_clr_sm.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We spent half the day snowboarding on the beginner portion of the mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 Fianc\u00c3\u00a9 was very patient and offered tips for improvement and directions on the best way down the different slopes.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a blast and definitely did much much better than my last outing.\u00c2\u00a0 Good sleep and regular exercise is helping already.\u00c2\u00a0 After wearing myself out, I sent him off to run wild on the double blacks.\u00c2\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t take much prodding &#8211; he was practically chomping at the bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend we decided to play in the snow on a different mountain in the area.\u00c2\u00a0 Stevens Pass is about two hours northeast of us in the Cascades.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of the drive is a very gradual climb with the mountains &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/?p=131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,30,20,17,19,47,18],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventuring","tag-outdoor","tag-seattle","tag-snow","tag-snowboard","tag-sports","tag-stevens-pass","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}