{"id":147280,"date":"2018-12-07T18:43:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T01:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=147280"},"modified":"2018-12-07T18:43:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T01:43:01","slug":"snowboard-video-truffle-pigs-an-alaskan-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=147280","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Video &#8211; TRUFFLE PIGS, An Alaskan Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last winter, Travis Rice and Chris Rasman went deep into Alaska\u2019s Tordillo Mountains. Their trip coincided with about five feet of fresh snow \u2014 which was followed up by about 100 MPH winds.<\/p>\n<p>This lead to long days of searching and even longer nights in the lodge, sipping exotic wines and contemplating fate or at least thinking about where, oh where, those pockets of good snow might be hiding.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of it, Travis and Chris started to feel like truffle pigs \u2014 animals known for their acute ability to find rare objects or situations. You know, like geographical oddities and good snow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L5hBwms64gA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last winter, Travis Rice and Chris Rasman went deep into Alaska\u2019s Tordillo Mountains. Their trip coincided with about five feet of fresh snow \u2014 which was followed up by about 100 MPH winds. This lead to long days of searching and even longer nights in the lodge, sipping exotic wines and contemplating fate or at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,52,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow","category-snowboard","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147281,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147280\/revisions\/147281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}