{"id":2429667,"date":"2019-01-17T12:05:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=294000"},"modified":"2019-01-17T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:05:48","slug":"report-misjudgments-led-to-avalanche-that-killed-longmont-man-in-southwestern-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/report-misjudgments-led-to-avalanche-that-killed-longmont-man-in-southwestern-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Misjudgments led to avalanche that killed Longmont man in southwestern Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An avalanche that swept six skiers participating in an\u00a0advanced avalanche safety course downslope this month, killing\u00a0a 40-year-old man who was part of the group, was triggered as the skiers failed to follow a basic procedure aimed at minimizing avalanche threats and risk, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Avalanche Information Center on Wednesday released a report on the Jan. 5 avalanche on Upper Senator Beck Basin, northwest of Red Mountain Pass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This accident is especially troublesome as it involved a group of well-trained and well-equipped people in an avalanche safety class,&#8221; said the report published by\u00a0Ethan Greene, Jeff Davis, Ann Mellick and Chris Bilbrey of the avalanche center.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Marshall of Longmont was the first person killed by an avalanche this year in Colorado. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/01\/07\/silverton-avalanche-safety-course-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">group on the mountain<\/a>\u00a0was with the\u00a0Silverton Avalanche School.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/01\/16\/colorado-avalanche-killed-longmont-man\/\">The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/misjudgments-led-to-avalanche-that-killed-longmont-man-in-southwestern-colorado-according-to-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An avalanche that swept six skiers participating in an\u00a0advanced avalanche safety course downslope this month, killing\u00a0a 40-year-old man who was part of the group, was triggered as the skiers failed to follow a basic procedure aimed at minimizing avalanche threats and risk, according to investigators. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center on Wednesday released a report [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2429667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 02:28:27","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}