{"id":659,"date":"2015-04-20T12:20:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T12:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=659"},"modified":"2015-04-20T12:25:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T12:25:33","slug":"avalanche-blasting-in-les-3-vallees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/04\/avalanche-blasting-in-les-3-vallees\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche blasting in Les 3 Vallees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a beautiful morning &#8211; the sun is out, the skies are blue and 40cm of fresh powder fell last night&#8230;but the lifts aren&#8217;t open yet!<\/p>\n<p>How frustrating is it that you can&#8217;t rush out and ski all the fresh powder that&#8217;s out there&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s good reason &#8211; pisteurs have to make the ski resort safe as their first priority, setting off avalanches via manual and automatic blasting.<\/p>\n<p>This superb video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/france\/les-trois-vallees\">Les 3 Vallees<\/a> shows you how they do it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T0m__uthae0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nSo next time you&#8217;re waiting for the lifts to open, you&#8217;ll know what&#8217;s going on further up the mountain!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-660\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blasting.png\" alt=\"blasting\" width=\"487\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/04\/avalanche-blasting-in-les-3-vallees\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blasting-190x114.png);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blasting-190x114.png<\/a><p>It&#8217;s a beautiful morning &#8211; the sun is out, the skies are blue and 40cm of fresh powder fell last night&#8230;but the lifts aren&#8217;t open yet! How frustrating is it that you can&#8217;t rush out and ski all the fresh &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/04\/avalanche-blasting-in-les-3-vallees\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[249,248,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}