{"id":794162,"date":"2019-03-25T17:55:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T23:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=363479"},"modified":"2019-03-25T17:55:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T23:55:34","slug":"reported-avalanche-on-buffalo-mountain-appears-to-be-false-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/reported-avalanche-on-buffalo-mountain-appears-to-be-false-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Reported avalanche on Buffalo Mountain appears to be false alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Snowpack-SDN-122718-1-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Snowpack-SDN-122718-1-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Snowpack-SDN-122718-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>Buffalo Mountain blanketed in fresh snow as seen on Wednesday, Dec. 26, near Silverthorne.<\/strong><br \/>Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Summit County Rescue Group responded to reports of an avalanche on the north chute of Buffalo Mountain earlier today, though the call appears to be a false alarm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Charles Pitman, public information officer with the Summit County Rescue Group, said that several members of the group have been investigating the area for the last hour, but haven\u2019t discovered any signs that an avalanche actually happened. Pitman noted that after reports of tracks disappearing into an avalanche began circulating on social media more than an hour ago, the group received a call from some individuals who went skiing in the area earlier today who said that there was no avalanche.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless anybody has any specific information about somebody who went skiing and who hasn\u2019t come back, we\u2019re not going to respond any further,\u201d said Pitman. \u201cSo far we have nothing that would lead us to believe there\u2019s any reason to go further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/reported-avalanche-on-buffalo-mountain-appears-to-be-false-alarm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Mountain blanketed in fresh snow as seen on Wednesday, Dec. 26, near Silverthorne.Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com The Summit County Rescue Group responded to reports of an avalanche on the north chute of Buffalo Mountain earlier today, though the call appears to be a false alarm.&nbsp; Charles Pitman, public information officer with the Summit County [&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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 01:06:54","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\/794162","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=794162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}