{"id":792665,"date":"2019-02-02T12:55:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=358019"},"modified":"2019-02-02T12:55:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T19:55:48","slug":"cbs4-to-profile-vail-locals-who-saved-denver-man-on-vail-mountain-in-segment-after-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/cbs4-to-profile-vail-locals-who-saved-denver-man-on-vail-mountain-in-segment-after-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS4 to profile Vail locals who saved Denver man on Vail Mountain in segment after Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

VAIL \u2014 On-snow reporter\u00a0John LaConte<\/a>\u00a0often has his GoPro with him on Vail Mountain to record the Vail Daily\u2019s\u00a0On the Hill conditions<\/a>\u00a0report throughout the winter.<\/p>\n

When he was enjoying a powder day with locals Taylor Seaton and Pat Baskins at the end of November, though, he stumbled upon a medical emergency in Earl\u2019s Bowl at Vail.<\/p>\n

Todd Ermentraut is thankful for the trio finding him after suffering a complete fracture of his femur and getting stuck under a dead tree in the deep powder on Nov. 29.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m lucky to be alive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Footage from LaConte\u2019s camera will be used in a story by KCNC channel 4, the CBS News affiliate in Denver, documenting Ermentraut\u2019s story. The segment is set to air after the Super Bowl on Sunday at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cPat and Taylor tended to Todd while I marked off the area so ski patrol could find us,\u201d LaConte said. \u201cWhen I could tell that Todd was most likely going to be OK, I did start recording that day. I couldn\u2019t help it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While a reporter, LaConte said he decided against writing about Ermentraut during his normal course of reporting for the Vail Daily.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried but it felt more like a diary entry,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was during Birds of Prey and I was really busy at the time so I moved on to a different story and pretty much forgot about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

KCNC reporter Matt Kroschel caught wind of the story from a colleague who had seen a Facebook post and contacted LaConte, who was at the X Games at the time, covering Seaton of all people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was pretty funny he contacted me on the same day Taylor was competing,\u201d LaConte said. \u201cThat night when I would normally be interviewing him about his performance, we were looking at our calendars setting up a visit with CBS4.\u201d<\/p>\n

When they met on Monday, \u201cWe didn\u2019t realize Todd would be there, too,\u201d Seaton said. \u201cHe had a bunch of delicious baked goods and some heavy beers waiting for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

LaConte has shared his clips with Kroschel, who will use the material to tell Ermentarut\u2019s story in the post-Super Bowl broadcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThirty minutes before these guys got there, I was having the best runs of my life,\u201d Ermentraut said. \u201cI\u2019m glad (LaConte) was filming so everyone can see how quickly it can turn from your best day to your worst nightmare. The Vail Ski Patrol are absolute heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ermentraut has agreed to be a guest on LaConte\u2019s On the Hill video snow report for vaildaily.com when he returns to skiing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be back before the end of this season,\u201d he said. \u201cYou better believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assistant editor Ross Leonhart can be reached at 970-748-2984 and\u00a0rleonhart@vaildaily.com<\/a>. Follow him on Instagram at\u00a0colorado_livin_on_the_hill<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

VAIL \u2014 On-snow reporter\u00a0John LaConte\u00a0often has his GoPro with him on Vail Mountain to record the Vail Daily\u2019s\u00a0On the Hill conditions\u00a0report throughout the winter. When he was enjoying a powder day with locals Taylor Seaton and Pat Baskins at the end of November, though, he stumbled upon a medical emergency in Earl\u2019s Bowl at Vail. […]<\/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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792665","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 14:38:15","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}