{"id":1387921,"date":"2019-02-17T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/aspen-area-men-die-in-backcountry-avalanche-near-crested-butte-2\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T23:52:00","slug":"aspen-area-men-die-in-backcountry-avalanche-near-crested-butte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/aspen-area-men-die-in-backcountry-avalanche-near-crested-butte\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen-area men die in backcountry avalanche near Crested Butte"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two men from the Roaring Fork Valley died Saturday in a backcountry avalanche near Crested Butte, the Mount Crested Butte Police Department said Sunday.<\/p>\n

Michael Goerne, 37, who was a lacrosse coach at Aspen High School, and Owen Green, 27, who was with the Snowmass Tourism Department, died Saturday in the East Brush Creek area in a section known as Death Pass. Goerne lived in Carbondale and Green lived in Aspen, according to their social media profiles.<\/p>\n

They were reported missing at 8 p.m. Saturday when they did not return. A team from the Crested Butte Search and Rescue went into the field.<\/p>\n

“At approximately 10 p.m. tracks were discovered leading into a fresh avalanche field near the area known as Death Pass. No tracks exiting the slide were found and faint beacon signals were located in the slide area,” according to a news release. “Shortly after midnight, it was determined conditions were too adverse to conduct a recovery operation.”<\/p>\n

A team went back out Sunday morning and some were airlifted to the scene. <\/p>\n

“The air transport team quickly located the bodies of the two men as beacon signals were transmitting. At approximately 3 p.m. the bodies had been transported by the team to the helicopter landing zone at Brush<\/p>\n

Creek,” the new release said.<\/p>\n

Families of the men have been notified.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story that will be updated.<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two men from the Roaring Fork Valley died Saturday in a backcountry avalanche near Crested Butte, the Mount Crested Butte Police Department said Sunday. Michael Goerne, 37, who was a lacrosse coach at Aspen High School, and Owen Green, 27, who was with the Snowmass Tourism Department, died Saturday in the East Brush Creek area […]<\/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-1387921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-09 00:46:38","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\/1387921","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=1387921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}