{"id":15450,"date":"2025-11-29T00:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photos-purgatory-resort-opens-for-skiing\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:48:08","slug":"photos-purgatory-resort-opens-for-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photos-purgatory-resort-opens-for-skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Purgatory Resort opens for skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=56b6cc5a-1f01-5e92-980b-4a3a6bedf766&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1351\" alt=\"Randy Reames, with Purgatory Resort, scans Justin West\u2019s lift ticket during opening day on Friday. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Randy Reames, with Purgatory Resort, scans Justin West\u2019s lift ticket during opening day on Friday. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=54ec87f4-b428-529e-abb3-584131952af9&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1447\" alt=\"Owen Haines, left, and Noah Hauk ride Lift 1 back down on Friday during opening day at Purgatory Resort. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Owen Haines, left, and Noah Hauk ride Lift 1 back down on Friday during opening day at Purgatory Resort. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=66760ccb-997c-5856-91bc-22aac8d16f56&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1341\" alt=\"Family members from all over sit around a fire pit Friday during opening day at Purgatory Resort. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Family members from all over sit around a fire pit Friday during opening day at Purgatory Resort. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reames, with Purgatory Resort, scans Justin West\u2019s lift ticket during opening day on Friday. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)cca Owen Haines, left, and Noah Hauk ride Lift 1 back down on Friday during opening day at Purgatory Resort. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)cca Family members from all over sit around a fire pit Friday during opening day at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,976,712,994],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-outdoor-recreation","tag-purgatory","tag-trueanthem"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19664,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450\/revisions\/19664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15450"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}