{"id":806423,"date":"2020-04-15T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=381809"},"modified":"2020-04-16T08:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T14:08:58","slug":"summit-county-rescue-group-saves-injured-snowboarder-off-loveland-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-county-rescue-group-saves-injured-snowboarder-off-loveland-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County Rescue Group saves injured snowboarder off Loveland Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/BreckAvy-SDN-030919-1-1024x703.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/BreckAvy-SDN-030919-1-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/BreckAvy-SDN-030919-1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/BreckAvy-SDN-030919-1-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/BreckAvy-SDN-030919-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>A Summit County Rescue Group vehicle is parked at Breckenridge Ski Resort on March 8, 2019.<\/strong><br \/><em>Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>LOVELAND PASS \u2014 The Summit County Rescue Group helped to save a severely injured snowboarder off Loveland Pass on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Three members of the rescue team responded to the Clear Creek side of Loveland Pass at about 7 p.m. Tuesday, according to Charles Pitman, the group\u2019s public information officer. Pitman said two men were snowboarding together when one ended up injured about 100 yards from the top of the pass.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s friend didn\u2019t have any cellphone service, so he made his way down to the road and hitchhiked his way back to the top of the pass to call for help. The Summit rescue team arrived shortly after an ambulance crew from Clear Creek. Crews stabilized the man and carried him down to the road in a carbon-fiber toboggan, according to Pitman. In total, the mission took about three hours.<\/p>\n<p>Pitman said the man was taken to St. Anthony Summit Medical Center in Frisco with injuries he characterized as \u201con the ragged edge of very serious and life threatening\u201d but said he couldn\u2019t elaborate any further. He also said he couldn\u2019t speak to the exact nature of the accident.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row sd-donation sd-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/sdn-banner-paypal.jpg)\" class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/donate\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=donation&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=mid-article\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pitman said the men were from Clear Creek County, and he lauded them for recreating close to home and with the proper equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe and his friend were recreating close to home, adhering to social distancing rules, and they had the appropriate backcountry gear in an avalanche beacon, probe and shovel,\u201d Pitman said. \u201cThey were doing everything right, which is what we like to see. It just wasn\u2019t a good day for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pitman said search and rescue calls have been down considerably since stay-at-home orders went into effect in Summit County and around the state, despite a sizable number of individuals still heading to the backcountry to recreate.<\/p>\n<p>And while community members will undoubtedly continue to head to the mountains to break away from the monotony of living and working at home, Pitman urged recreationists to use caution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople just need to understand that there could be extended response and extraction times,\u201d Pitman said. \u201cThings are not business as usual for us, same as all the other first responders in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pitman said the all-volunteer group is trying to minimize person-to-person contact whenever possible, which means potentially sending fewer responders to injuries. And while Pitman emphasized that the group still will respond to life-threatening injuries or individuals who are lost in the wilderness, others should be prepared to self-rescue if trouble arises.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if someone\u2019s snowmobile dies, Pitman said they should consider calling a friend to help them out instead of dispatch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur resources are more limited,\u201d Pitman said. \u201cWe may be taking a long, hard look at if something is worth putting our rescuers at risk if there\u2019s another way to solve a problem and there are no life-threatening injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-county-rescue-group-saves-injured-snowboarder-off-loveland-pass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Summit County Rescue Group vehicle is parked at Breckenridge Ski Resort on March 8, 2019.Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com LOVELAND PASS \u2014 The Summit County Rescue Group helped to save a severely injured snowboarder off Loveland Pass on Tuesday evening. Three members of the rescue team responded to the Clear Creek side of Loveland Pass [&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-806423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 01:31:16","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\/806423","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=806423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806434,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806423\/revisions\/806434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}