{"id":2444645,"date":"2019-05-27T13:11:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T19:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=306562"},"modified":"2019-05-27T13:11:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T19:11:13","slug":"workers-blast-massive-boulder-blocking-colorado-highway-145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/workers-blast-massive-boulder-blocking-colorado-highway-145\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers blast massive boulder blocking Colorado Highway 145"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/001.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/001.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/001-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><figcaption><strong>A rock slide on Colorado 145 between Cortez and Telluride closed the highway on Friday.<\/strong><br \/><em>Colorado Department of Transportation\/Courtesy Photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CORTEZ \u2014 Workers have blasted apart a house-sized boulder that crashed onto and shut down a southwestern Colorado highway linking Durango and Ouray.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Department of Transportation says trucks are hauling away fragments of the 1,150-ton rock from state Highway 145 while workers build a temporary bypass.<\/p>\n<p>That bypass could open Tuesday or Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Journal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/the-journal.com\/articles\/139795-update-crew-blasts-boulder-blocking-colorado-145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;workers drilled 15-foot-deep holes into the rock to insert explosives before blasting it apart on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>That was done after workers checked the stability of a ridgeline 1,000 feet above from where that boulder and another fell on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The second boulder crashed across the road, creating an eight-foot trench. No one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/workers-blast-massive-boulder-blocking-colorado-highway-145\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rock slide on Colorado 145 between Cortez and Telluride closed the highway on Friday.Colorado Department of Transportation\/Courtesy Photo CORTEZ \u2014 Workers have blasted apart a house-sized boulder that crashed onto and shut down a southwestern Colorado highway linking Durango and Ouray. The Colorado Department of Transportation says trucks are hauling away fragments of the [&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-2444645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 21:03:24","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\/2444645","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=2444645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}