{"id":14568,"date":"2010-03-05T22:12:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14568"},"modified":"2010-03-05T22:27:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:27:47","slug":"snowboarder-dies-in-mammoth-tree-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14568","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Dies In Mammoth Tree Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snowboarder <strong>Erica Patterson<\/strong>, 43, of  Hidden Hills, California was found dead in a tree well on Saturday, February 27, 2010 on Mammoth Mountain&#8217;s Lincoln Mountain, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/snow-237841-ski-deep.html\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County Register<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At 1:30 p.m. Mammoth Mountain Ski Patrol were told that Patterson. . . had become separated from her husband while snowboarding through the trees. . . .Ski patrollers searched the area and at 4:25 p.m. found Patterson about 50 yards off the side of a run in a tree well. Patterson was found when a senior ski patroller probed tree wells and first discovered her snowboard buried under the snow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Mono County Sherriff&#8217;s office is investigating Patterson&#8217;s death, according to the story, but officials believe she suffocated under about three feet of snow. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/snow-237841-ski-deep.html\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snowboarder Erica Patterson, 43, of Hidden Hills, California was found dead in a tree well on Saturday, February 27, 2010 on Mammoth Mountain&#8217;s Lincoln Mountain, according to a story in the Orange County Register. At 1:30 p.m. Mammoth Mountain Ski Patrol were told that Patterson. . . had become separated from her husband while snowboarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14571,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14568\/revisions\/14571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}