{"id":438,"date":"2010-01-25T12:57:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/?p=438"},"modified":"2012-05-13T14:27:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T21:27:49","slug":"burstall-pass-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/burstall-pass-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Burstall Pass Peak Sat Jan 23\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had trouble motivating myself to do Burstall pass yet again given the low cloud and snow in Calgary but I needed to get out and do something so I joined up with a group of young friends on a last minute whim.\u00a0 The weather cleared up and was calmer than any time I have been there.\u00a0 Felt like we stole a day.\u00a0 Good little adventure with some great people.\u00a0 About 1000 m gain and 20 km RT.\u00a0 Some good turns in boot top snow on hard base on the RH gully\/ramp exit SE off the main South most peak.\u00a0 The avi conditions were stable so we skirted along the base of the steep slopes on the lower bench and back to the pass.\u00a0 From the pass we\u00a0dropped in to the left to ski the best treed runs in some very good powder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I was not expecting good photo conditions so had not checked my camera and the battery died so no pictures so I was glad Vern showed up.\u00a0 The setting and light conditions were great but Vern&#8217;s artistic talent adds a lot to the pictures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/verndewit.com\/burstallpasspeak\">Vern&#8217;s Burstall Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Full screen slideshow for maximum appreciation .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had trouble motivating myself to do Burstall pass yet again given the low cloud and snow in Calgary but I needed to get out and do something so I joined up with a group of young friends on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/burstall-pass-peak\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8,94],"tags":[43,12,22,37,7,44,31,13,60],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backcountry-ski","category-scramble","category-ski-mountaineering","tag-alpine-touring","tag-at","tag-kananaskis","tag-ridge","tag-ski","tag-ski-mountaineering","tag-snow","tag-tele","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}