{"id":26538,"date":"2011-11-17T00:06:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T08:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26538"},"modified":"2011-11-17T00:46:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T08:46:58","slug":"mt-baker-opens-on-friday-november-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26538","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Baker Opens On Friday November 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/baker_open.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/baker_open.jpg','popup','width=546,height=413,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/baker_open-tm.jpg\" height=\"151\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Baker Open\" \/><\/a>With the advent of man-made snow, resort openings really don&#8217;t mean that much anymore. But when a resort with no snowmaking (like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtbaker.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mt. Baker<\/a><\/strong>) announces that they are going to open Friday, November 18, 2011 with an expected 25-40 inches of new snow, it&#8217;s something good.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what <strong>Gwen Howat<\/strong> told the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellinghamherald.com\/2011\/11\/16\/2273677\/mt-baker-ski-area-opens-friday.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bellingham Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s snowing and blowing and it&#8217;s a blizzard, so we&#8217;ll take it,&#8221; said Gwyn Howat, the ski area&#8217;s operations manager, of conditions on the mountain late Wednesday afternoon. &#8220;(We&#8217;re) looking forward to a powder-filled season with La Ni\u00f1a on our heels here.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Need a better reason to head north this weekend? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellinghamherald.com\/2011\/11\/16\/2273677\/mt-baker-ski-area-opens-friday.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bellingham Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the advent of man-made snow, resort openings really don&#8217;t mean that much anymore. But when a resort with no snowmaking (like Mt. Baker) announces that they are going to open Friday, November 18, 2011 with an expected 25-40 inches of new snow, it&#8217;s something good. Here&#8217;s what Gwen Howat told the Bellingham Herald: &#8220;It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26538"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26540,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26538\/revisions\/26540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}