{"id":2440858,"date":"2019-02-21T09:44:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=299471"},"modified":"2019-02-21T09:44:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:44:05","slug":"backcountry-skier-killed-in-slide-near-telluride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/backcountry-skier-killed-in-slide-near-telluride\/","title":{"rendered":"Backcountry skier killed in slide near Telluride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 47-year-old man was killed Tuesday in a large avalanche near Telluride triggered by snowboarders on a slope above him, authorities say, becoming Colorado&#8217;s fifth snow-slide death of the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telluridenews.com\/sports\/article_876da7a8-d717-11e8-b5c5-1f3d95582e6f.html\">Salvador Garcia-Atance<\/a>, who was backcountry skiing on a well-traveled trail above Telluride, was the third man killed in a four-day period following heavy snowfall across the high country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This accident is especially tragic because this person didn&#8217;t trigger the avalanche,&#8221; said Ethan Greene, who leads the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Garcia-Atance was reported missing on Tuesday afternoon after setting out on a backcountry trip, skinning from the valley floor in Telluride up the mellow trail heading into the Bear Creek drainage, prompting a search team from the Telluride Resort ski patrol to scour the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2019\/02\/20\/backcountry-skier-killed-in-especially-tragic-slide-near-telluride-becoming-colorados-5th-avalanche-death-of-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story from the Colorado Sun.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/backcountry-skier-killed-in-slide-near-telluride\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 47-year-old man was killed Tuesday in a large avalanche near Telluride triggered by snowboarders on a slope above him, authorities say, becoming Colorado&#8217;s fifth snow-slide death of the 2018-19 season. Salvador Garcia-Atance, who was backcountry skiing on a well-traveled trail above Telluride, was the third man killed in a four-day period following heavy snowfall [&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-2440858","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 06:19:39","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\/2440858","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=2440858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}