{"id":11387,"date":"2013-03-04T12:21:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T21:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/?p=11387"},"modified":"2013-03-08T10:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T19:52:21","slug":"march-skiing-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/march-skiing-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"March Skiing in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0083.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11389\" title=\"_DSC0083\" src=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0083.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0083.jpg 700w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0083-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0083-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0083-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>No tips today, no special insight, just some backcountry skiing goodness from Alaska. Much to our delight up here, March has taken a firm hold with noticeably increased sunshine, a gradually stabilizing snowpack, decent powder and temperatures that sometimes make you sweat too much to even wear gloves while you&#8217;re skinning.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s not like this every day in March, but it sure was nice yesterday. Good snow, good friends, great weather, good vertical, a good burn on the legs and a brand new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/897230-REG\/Nikon_2202_NIKKOR_AF_S_70_200mm_f_4_0G.html\/BI\/5871\/KBID\/6746\">Nikon AF-S 70-200mm f\/4G VR Lens<\/a>\u00a0to play around with. What wasn&#8217;t there to love?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I&#8217;m loving this thing! It&#8217;s proving very quickly to be a solid go-to backcountry lens. <a href=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/full-review-the-nikon-70-200mm-f4g-ed-vr-lens\/\">Check out my full review of this lens<\/a>\u00a0and bear with me, because I&#8217;m definitely going to keep writing about more in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/897230-REG\/Nikon_2202_NIKKOR_AF_S_70_200mm_f_4_0G.html\/BI\/5871\/KBID\/6746\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nikon-70-200-f4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope you&#8217;re getting out here with the camera!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0088-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11388\" title=\"_DSC0088-2\" src=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0088-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0088-2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0088-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0088-2-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0088-2-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0062.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11390\" title=\"_DSC0062\" src=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0062.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0062.jpg 466w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0062-300x451.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0062-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0027.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11413\" title=\"_DSC0027\" src=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0027.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0027.jpg 700w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0027-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0027-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSC0027-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sign up for my newsletter and get yumminess like this delivered right to your inbox. Of course, I mean that figuratively. I can&#8217;t actually send you any real snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No tips today, no special insight, just some backcountry skiing goodness from Alaska. Much to our delight up here, March has taken a firm hold with noticeably increased sunshine, a gradually stabilizing snowpack, decent powder and temperatures that sometimes make you sweat too much to even wear gloves while you&#8217;re skinning. Sure, it&#8217;s not like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,14,76,108,20,89,149,43,42,103],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}