{"id":722,"date":"1985-02-01T17:39:32","date_gmt":"1985-02-01T17:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernloon.net\/wordpress30\/?p=722"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:41:56","slug":"aspen-xc-ski-with-eileen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"Aspen X\/C Ski with Eileen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was one of the early &#8220;dates&#8221; with Eileen.\u00a0 Aspen was somewhat unspoiled and off the beaten track back then.\u00a0 You could still live there and not be Chris Evert.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure which road we took in.\u00a0 Might have been Maroon Creek. The trailhead was out of Aspen to the West, not very far, the trail ran south towards Maroon Bells. \u00a0 We were in a wide valley, with the ground rising up on either side but not all that high or jagged, so it was &#8220;interesting&#8221; to come across an avalanche across the trail that was 20&#8242; high.<\/p>\n<p>Click for more photos.\u00a0 We thought the Saab police cars were a hoot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/1985\/AspenXC\/n-8hFTz4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-723\" title=\"aspen-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/aspen-2-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/aspen-2-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/aspen-2-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/aspen-2.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one of the early &#8220;dates&#8221; with Eileen.\u00a0 Aspen was somewhat unspoiled and off the beaten track back then.\u00a0 You could still live there and not be Chris Evert.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure which road we took in.\u00a0 Might have been Maroon Creek. The trailhead was out of Aspen to the West, not very far, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aspen X\/C Ski with Eileen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-skiing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}