{"id":2449211,"date":"2019-09-26T19:43:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T01:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=313511"},"modified":"2019-09-26T19:43:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T01:43:58","slug":"denver-man-injured-while-hiking-in-snowfield-off-castle-peak-near-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/denver-man-injured-while-hiking-in-snowfield-off-castle-peak-near-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver man injured while hiking in snowfield off Castle Peak near Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 52-year-old Denver man was injured Thursday afternoon while hiking in a snowfield just below Castle Peak near Aspen and was rescued by bystanders and crews from Mountain Rescue Aspen, officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who was hiking alone, sustained a cut to the back of the head and \u201cskeletal injuries\u201d and was transported to the hospital, according to a statement from the Pitkin County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe injured hiker reported that while he was glissading down the Conundrum Couloir, he lost control and tumbled head over heals,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>After being injured, the man was helped to the Montezuma Basin area by three hikers, and they were met there by a crew from MRA and he was taken to Castle Creek Road then transported to the hospital. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Castle Peak (elevation 14,265 feet) is southwest of Aspen past the town of Ashcroft. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/denver-man-injured-while-hiking-in-snowfield-off-castle-peak-near-aspen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 52-year-old Denver man was injured Thursday afternoon while hiking in a snowfield just below Castle Peak near Aspen and was rescued by bystanders and crews from Mountain Rescue Aspen, officials said in a statement. The man, who was hiking alone, sustained a cut to the back of the head and \u201cskeletal injuries\u201d and was [&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-2449211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 09:32:34","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\/2449211","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=2449211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}