{"id":15285,"date":"2010-04-05T10:55:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15285"},"modified":"2010-04-05T10:55:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:55:45","slug":"12-year-old-saves-friends-life-in-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=15285","title":{"rendered":"12 Year Old Saves Friend&#8217;s Life In Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When an avalanche buried two of his friends while snowboarding at Washington State&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionridge.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Ridge Ski and Board Resort <\/a><\/strong>12-year-old <strong>Dalton Anderson<\/strong> went to work, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wenatcheeworld.com\/news\/2010\/apr\/05\/small-avalanche-buries-two-snowboarders\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Wenatchee World<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDalton was definitely the hero of the day.\u201d Brad Whiting, director of Mission Ridge\u2019s ski patrol, said of Dalton Anderson. \u201cDalton did things right.\u201d . . Dalton used a shovel to dig out Payton Weber, 13, who was partly buried, then raced to Wyatt Baird, 13. Wyatt\u2019s left hand was the only part of him above the snow, Whiting said. . . \u201cI don\u2019t know how many 12-year-old boys would have the courage to stay there, instead of running for help,\u201d Whiting said. \u201cIn an avalanche, you can\u2019t go for help, really; there\u2019s not enough time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wyatt Baird, was &#8220;quite blue and coughing up blood&#8221; when he was pulled from the snow, but after time in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwhs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Central Washington Hospital<\/a><\/strong> critical care unit it appears he is recovering fine according to the story. Nice work, Dalton. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an avalanche buried two of his friends while snowboarding at Washington State&#8217;s Mission Ridge Ski and Board Resort 12-year-old Dalton Anderson went to work, according to a story in The Wenatchee World. \u201cDalton was definitely the hero of the day.\u201d Brad Whiting, director of Mission Ridge\u2019s ski patrol, said of Dalton Anderson. \u201cDalton did [&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\/15285"}],"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=15285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15286,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285\/revisions\/15286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}