{"id":2456254,"date":"2020-03-24T15:57:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=323195"},"modified":"2020-03-24T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:57:15","slug":"local-man-rescued-after-snowmobile-accident-on-backside-of-aspen-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/local-man-rescued-after-snowmobile-accident-on-backside-of-aspen-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Local man rescued after snowmobile accident on backside of Aspen Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/logo-main.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/logo-main.png 200w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/logo-main-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A 32-year-old snowmobiler was rescued from a backcountry area on the backside of Aspen Mountain after colliding with a tree Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The snowmobiler was a local man who struck a tree while riding on Richmond Ridge. He sustained injuries to his head and was transported by a Flight for Life helicopter to Aspen Valley Hospital, according to a Pitkin County Sheriff\u2019s Office news release.<\/p>\n<p>At 11:27 a.m., the regional emergency dispatch center received a call for help from a member of the injured man\u2019s party. Mountain Rescue Aspen rescuers deployed to the scene by snowmobile by 12:33 p.m. and provided medical care to the injured person, who was then flown to AVH, the release stated.<\/p>\n<p>The injury occurred on Richmond Ridge, which is near the Aspen Mountain ski area, out-of-bounds, south of the Sundeck.<\/p>\n<p>The Pitkin County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Mountain Rescue Aspen would like to remind the public that the Colorado backcountry is inherently dangerous, and due to the remoteness of backcountry incidents, emergency medical care may be delayed.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story that may be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local-man-rescued-after-snowmobile-accident-on-backside-of-aspen-mountain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 32-year-old snowmobiler was rescued from a backcountry area on the backside of Aspen Mountain after colliding with a tree Tuesday morning. The snowmobiler was a local man who struck a tree while riding on Richmond Ridge. He sustained injuries to his head and was transported by a Flight for Life helicopter to Aspen Valley [&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":["post-2456254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 08:26:44","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\/2456254","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=2456254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}