{"id":19851,"date":"2010-11-22T21:33:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T05:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19851"},"modified":"2010-11-22T21:57:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T05:57:27","slug":"snowboarder-survives-berthoud-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19851","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Survives Berthoud Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kevin Bransfield<\/strong> says he&#8217;s lucky to be alive after he got caught in a large avalanche last week on Colorado&#8217;s Berthoud Pass, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/25885861\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Denver Channel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I kept sliding and sliding and sliding,&#8221; said Bransfield. &#8220;I thought I was going to get buried. I thought it was the end of my life.&#8221; . . Bransfield said at times, it felt like an eternity, waiting for the slide to stop. &#8220;It was large in every direction that I looked. It was all sliding,&#8221; he said. . . &#8220;All I could see was my board and my feet. All I saw was white the whole time,&#8221; said Bransfield. . . Bransfield was buried up to his neck. His dog was safe on the mountain, while his friends called for help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Luckily, Bransfield was wearing his helmet. According to the story he should make a full recovered from his injuries in about eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/25885861\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Denver Channel<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Bransfield says he&#8217;s lucky to be alive after he got caught in a large avalanche last week on Colorado&#8217;s Berthoud Pass, according to a story on The Denver Channel. &#8220;I kept sliding and sliding and sliding,&#8221; said Bransfield. &#8220;I thought I was going to get buried. I thought it was the end of my [&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\/19851"}],"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=19851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19860,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19851\/revisions\/19860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}