{"id":2442004,"date":"2019-03-21T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/man-seriously-injured-in-highlands-bowl-airlift-from-mountain-to-hospital\/"},"modified":"2019-03-22T08:37:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:37:55","slug":"man-seriously-injured-in-highland-bowl-airlifted-from-mountain-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/man-seriously-injured-in-highland-bowl-airlifted-from-mountain-to-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Man seriously injured in Highland Bowl, airlifted from mountain to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
Highland Bowl during a recent March day.<\/strong>
Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A medical helicopter landed early Thursday afternoon at Aspen Highlands to evacuate a seriously injured 56-year-old man who fell in Highland Bowl, officials said.<\/p>\n

Details about the incident were scarce Thursday, though it appeared the skier or snowboarder fell in the Bowl, slid down an unknown distance and was \u201cbadly injured,\u201d said Alex Burchetta, chief of operations for the Pitkin County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Aspen Skiing Co. Vice President of Communications Jeff Hanle said the man \u201ccrashed at the top of the Y2 run and slid to the bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hanle said the man was \u201cnonresponsive when patrol arrived, but they were able to perform life-saving measures and got a pulse. They stabilized him and moved him out of the Bowl to the midmountain to be airlifted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man was unconscious when he was evacuated about 1 p.m., and flown out of the area, Burchetta said.<\/p>\n

Aspen Highlands Ski Patrol coordinated the helicopter evacuation, Burchetta said. Sheriff\u2019s deputies responded to the base because an ambulance was called, he said.<\/p>\n

Gabe Muething, director of Aspen Ambulance, said his agency received a call to respond to Highlands at 12:55, and paramedics waited at the base of the mountain in case ski patrol brought the injured person down. The man suffered a \u201ctraumatic injury,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I know is it was significant injuries from trauma,\u201d Muething said.<\/p>\n

The helicopter evacuate the man to St. Mary\u2019s Hospital in Grand Junction, he said. An updated on the man\u2019s condition and where he is from was not available Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

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Highland Bowl during a recent March day.Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times A medical helicopter landed early Thursday afternoon at Aspen Highlands to evacuate a seriously injured 56-year-old man who fell in Highland Bowl, officials said. Details about the incident were scarce Thursday, though it appeared the skier or snowboarder fell in the Bowl, slid down an […]<\/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-2442004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 16:26:58","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'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\/2442004","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=2442004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}