{"id":1385096,"date":"2019-01-17T14:21:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T21:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=962834"},"modified":"2019-01-17T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T21:21:21","slug":"misjudgments-led-to-avalanche-that-killed-longmont-man-in-southwestern-colorado-according-to-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/misjudgments-led-to-avalanche-that-killed-longmont-man-in-southwestern-colorado-according-to-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Misjudgments led to avalanche that killed Longmont man in southwestern Colorado, according to report"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/avalanche-620x465.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium-large size-medium-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/avalanche-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/avalanche-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/avalanche-325x244.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/avalanche.jpg 669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>An avalanche that swept six skiers participating in an\u00a0advanced avalanche safety course downslope this month, killing\u00a0a 40-year-old man who was part of the group, was triggered as the skiers failed to follow a basic procedure aimed at minimizing avalanche threats and risk, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Avalanche Information Center on Wednesday released a report on the Jan. 5 avalanche on Upper Senator Beck Basin, northwest of Red Mountain Pass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This accident is especially troublesome as it involved a group of well-trained and well-equipped people in an avalanche safety class,&#8221; said the report published by\u00a0Ethan Greene, Jeff Davis, Ann Mellick and Chris Bilbrey of the avalanche center.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Marshall of Longmont was the first person killed by an avalanche this year in Colorado. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/01\/07\/silverton-avalanche-safety-course-death\/\">group on the mountain<\/a>\u00a0was with the\u00a0Silverton Avalanche School.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/01\/16\/colorado-avalanche-killed-longmont-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denverpost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/misjudgments-led-to-avalanche-that-killed-longmont-man-in-southwestern-colorado-according-to-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An avalanche that swept six skiers participating in an\u00a0advanced avalanche safety course downslope this month, killing\u00a0a 40-year-old man who was part of the group, was triggered as the skiers failed to follow a basic procedure aimed at minimizing avalanche threats and risk, according to investigators. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center on Wednesday released a report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-23 03:50:03","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":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}