{"id":802203,"date":"2019-12-11T10:07:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=375748"},"modified":"2019-12-12T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:27:00","slug":"coroner-identifies-skier-killed-in-backcountry-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/coroner-identifies-skier-killed-in-backcountry-avalanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies skier killed in backcountry avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-11-at-10.07.03-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The Larimer County Coroner\u2019s Office identified the skier who was killed in a backcountry avalanche on Sunday as Michelle Lindsay, a 29-year-old from Fort Collins.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday afternoon, an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/backcountry-skier-dies-in-avalanche-near-rocky-mountain-national-park\/\">avalanche on Diamond Peak buried and killed<\/a>&nbsp;Lindsay, marking the first avalanche death of the season in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Though Lindsay was dug out of the avalanche by other members of her group, she wasn\u2019t breathing and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Larimer County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, the avalanche was 2-3 feet deep, between 285 and 375 feet wide and 425 feet vertically.<\/p>\n<p>The Larimer County Coroner\u2019s Office determined that Lindsay suffocated while trapped underneath the snow.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, the avalanche was 2-3 feet deep, between 285 and 375 feet wide and 425 feet vertically.<\/p>\n<p>The Larimer County Coroner\u2019s Office determined that Lindsay suffocated while trapped underneath the snow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/coroner-identifies-skier-killed-in-backcountry-avalanche\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Larimer County Coroner\u2019s Office identified the skier who was killed in a backcountry avalanche on Sunday as Michelle Lindsay, a 29-year-old from Fort Collins. On Sunday afternoon, an&nbsp;avalanche on Diamond Peak buried and killed&nbsp;Lindsay, marking the first avalanche death of the season in Colorado. Though Lindsay was dug out of the avalanche by other [&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-802203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 08:31:01","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\/802203","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=802203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802235,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802203\/revisions\/802235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}