{"id":2441273,"date":"2019-03-03T17:38:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T00:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=300793"},"modified":"2019-03-03T17:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T00:38:46","slug":"second-avalanche-closes-i-70-near-copper-mountain-on-sunday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/second-avalanche-closes-i-70-near-copper-mountain-on-sunday-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Second avalanche closes I-70 near Copper Mountain on Sunday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An avalanche has closed Interstate 70 by Copper Mountain on Sunday in the Officers Gulch area.<\/p>\n<p>A Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman said she did not believe it to be a large-scale avalanche, but Colorado State Patrol has tweeted there could be people trapped in it.<\/p>\n<p>The CDOT spokeswoman said information is still coming in, and she could only confirm the road closure and add that CDOT hopes to reopen I-70 again soon.<\/p>\n<p>The interstate is closed eastbound from Edwards (mile maker 163) to Summit County (MM203).<\/p>\n<p>The avalanche comes after video of another avalanche in the same area Sunday morning was posted on social media by Brandon Ciullo.<\/p>\n<p><noscript> <\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>With heavy snowfall throughout the weekend, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center has issued an avalanche warning for the northern and central mountains.<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-mid-script\" class=\"p402_hide\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories For You<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/second-avalanche-closes-i-70-near-copper-mountain-on-sunday-afternoon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An avalanche has closed Interstate 70 by Copper Mountain on Sunday in the Officers Gulch area. A Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman said she did not believe it to be a large-scale avalanche, but Colorado State Patrol has tweeted there could be people trapped in it. The CDOT spokeswoman said information is still coming in, [&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-2441273","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 19:43:48","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\/2441273","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=2441273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}