{"id":804268,"date":"2020-02-17T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T16:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379136"},"modified":"2020-02-17T09:30:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T16:30:35","slug":"skier-dies-at-snow-mountain-ranch-in-granby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/skier-dies-at-snow-mountain-ranch-in-granby\/","title":{"rendered":"Skier dies at Snow Mountain Ranch in Granby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/PublicSafetyWebCard-SDN-1024x638.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A Nordic skier died at Snow Mountain Ranch after being reported missing Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release from the Grand County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the skier was reported missing at 4:44 p.m. Friday from the YMCA of the Rockies, Snow Mountain Ranch in Granby.<\/p>\n<p>The individual was found at 9:30 p.m. that night and pronounced dead at the scene, the release said. The skier\u2019s name has not been released pending notification of family.<\/p>\n<p>Grand County Search and Rescue, YMCA staff and volunteers assisted in the search.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook post from Grand County Search and Rescue described the skier as a 78-year-old Denver woman who had last been seen 3 p.m. Thursday near the Nordic Center. At the time, the weather was blizzard-like with high winds and blowing snow, the post said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s family became concerned when they couldn\u2019t make contact during the day Friday and contacted the YMCA. The woman\u2019s vehicle was found in the Nordic Center parking lot and a search mission was initiated at 4:44 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>After several hours of searching, the post said teams found a set of windblown ski tracks leaving a hard parked area near the YMCA stables heading downhill towards the Nordic Center. The woman was found, deceased, in the deep snow near some small trees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hearts go out to the skier and their family who have suffered a great loss,\u201d Snow Mountain Ranch General Manager Trueman Hoffmeister said in the sheriff\u2019s office release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/skier-dies-at-snow-mountain-ranch-in-granby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nordic skier died at Snow Mountain Ranch after being reported missing Friday. According to a release from the Grand County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the skier was reported missing at 4:44 p.m. Friday from the YMCA of the Rockies, Snow Mountain Ranch in Granby. The individual was found at 9:30 p.m. that night and pronounced dead [&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-804268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 13:54:34","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\/804268","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=804268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}