{"id":21469,"date":"2020-02-17T11:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=63234"},"modified":"2020-02-17T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T18:30:41","slug":"snowmobiler-dies-in-north-routt-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/snowmobiler-dies-in-north-routt-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowmobiler dies in North Routt on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"748\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-17-at-11.29.33-AM.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-17-at-11.29.33-AM.png 1020w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-17-at-11.29.33-AM-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-17-at-11.29.33-AM-768x563.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\"><figcaption><strong>A man died Friday evening while snowmobiling in Diamond Park in North Routt, according to Routt County Coroner Rob Ryg. <\/strong><br \/><em>File Photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>STEAMBOAT SPRINGS \u2014&nbsp;A 60-year-old man died Friday night while snowmobiling in North Routt, according to Routt County Coroner Rob Ryg.<\/p>\n<p>The man was snowmobiling in Diamond Park with his two brothers when he suffered a medical emergency, Ryg said.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:19 p.m., first responders received a report that the man had lost consciousness and was not breathing. His brothers performed CPR until help arrived. A medical helicopter responded but could not land due to the terrain, Ryg said.<\/p>\n<p>Routt County Search and Rescue volunteers arrived on scene but resuscitation efforts were not successful.<\/p>\n<p>The man Michael Metzler, from Cheyenne, Wyoming, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m., according to Ryg.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner will perform an autopsy at the beginning of the week to determine an official cause of death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/snowmobiler-dies-in-north-routt-on-friday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man died Friday evening while snowmobiling in Diamond Park in North Routt, according to Routt County Coroner Rob Ryg. File Photo STEAMBOAT SPRINGS \u2014&nbsp;A 60-year-old man died Friday night while snowmobiling in North Routt, according to Routt County Coroner Rob Ryg. The man was snowmobiling in Diamond Park with his two brothers when he [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 10:56:39","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":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}