{"id":803522,"date":"2020-01-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378076"},"modified":"2020-01-28T08:09:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:09:48","slug":"arapahoe-basin-ski-area-opens-steep-gullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/arapahoe-basin-ski-area-opens-steep-gullies\/","title":{"rendered":"Arapahoe Basin Ski Area opens Steep Gullies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Brf-BaldSpot-SDN-013019.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Brf-BaldSpot-SDN-013019.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Brf-BaldSpot-SDN-013019-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>A view of a portion of Arapahoe Basin Ski Area&#8217;s Steep Gullies terrain.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy Arapahoe Basin Ski Area<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>ARAPAHOE BASIN SKI AREA \u2014 Arapahoe Basin Ski Area opened its Steep Gullies terrain on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Steep Gullies, accessed via the Pallavicini Lift or the Beavers lift on A-Basin\u2019s front side, is a section of double-black-diamond extreme skiing that is for experts only.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a hike-back from the bottom of the Steep Gullies that skiers and snowboarders must do to return to A-Basin\u2019s front side base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Steep Gullies were a treat,\u201d A-Basin Chief Operating Officer Al Henceroth wrote on his blog Friday, \u201ca little rough and tricky getting in, but sweet, sweet skiing down the gut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Steep Gullies were the gems of the day,\u201d Henceroth wrote on his blog Sunday. \u201cWe took three laps out there. As often is the case, the entries were a little rough, but once in the guts of the chutes, the skiing was superb. The hike back is good exercise, but the real magic was skiing the main bodies of those trails. Awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/arapahoe-basin-ski-area-opens-steep-gullies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A view of a portion of Arapahoe Basin Ski Area&#8217;s Steep Gullies terrain.Courtesy Arapahoe Basin Ski Area ARAPAHOE BASIN SKI AREA \u2014 Arapahoe Basin Ski Area opened its Steep Gullies terrain on Friday. The Steep Gullies, accessed via the Pallavicini Lift or the Beavers lift on A-Basin\u2019s front side, is a section of double-black-diamond extreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 12:53:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803549,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803522\/revisions\/803549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}