{"id":25908,"date":"2019-06-24T09:56:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=367851"},"modified":"2019-06-24T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T15:56:50","slug":"2-women-die-friday-on-gunnison-river-bringing-colorados-spring-runoff-death-toll-to-at-least-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/2-women-die-friday-on-gunnison-river-bringing-colorados-spring-runoff-death-toll-to-at-least-5\/","title":{"rendered":"2 women die Friday on Gunnison River, bringing Colorado\u2019s spring runoff death toll to at least 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Ark_River_Raft_2-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Ark_River_Raft_2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Ark_River_Raft_2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Ark_River_Raft_2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Ark_River_Raft_2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>A kayaker paddles through the Five Points rapids on the Arkansas River in Colorado&#8217;s Big Horn Sheep Canyon on June 12, 2019. Flows in the canyon that day were reported at 4,240 cubic feet per second.<\/strong><br \/><em>Mike Sweeney, Special to The Colorado Sun<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Two women died in separate accidents Friday on the Gunnison River, bringing the death toll related to spring runoff to at least five people as Colorado waterways rage after a winter of deep snowfall.<\/p>\n<p>A Colorado Springs woman, Roberta Sophia Rodriguez, is also missing in the South Fork of the Rio Grande. Authorities say she went into the furious waters in recent days and hasn\u2019t been since.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have been warning people planning to recreate on Colorado\u2019s rivers and creeks to be extremely cautious. Forecasters have cautioned that peak runoff could continue into next month.<\/p>\n<p>Even more snow fell in the high country on Friday and Saturday, prolonging the runoff.<\/p>\n<p>The first woman to die on the Gunnison River on Friday was apparently paddle boarding when she fell into swift currents near County Road 32, just west of Gunnison.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"full story on The Colorado Sun website. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2019\/06\/23\/colorado-river-deaths-2019-gunnison\/\" target=\"_blank\">full story on The Colorado Sun website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported news organization dedicated to covering the people, places and policies that matter in Colorado. Read more, sign up for free newsletters and subscribe at <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"ColoradoSun.com (opens in a new tab)\">ColoradoSun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/2-women-die-friday-on-gunnison-river-bringing-colorados-spring-runoff-death-toll-to-at-least-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A kayaker paddles through the Five Points rapids on the Arkansas River in Colorado&#8217;s Big Horn Sheep Canyon on June 12, 2019. Flows in the canyon that day were reported at 4,240 cubic feet per second.Mike Sweeney, Special to The Colorado Sun Two women died in separate accidents Friday on the Gunnison River, bringing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 07:38:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}