{"id":22455,"date":"2011-03-28T08:06:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22455"},"modified":"2011-03-28T08:13:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:13:49","slug":"snowboarder-found-dead-at-sierra-at-tahoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22455","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Found Dead At Sierra-at-Tahoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each storm seems to bring more bad news. The body of missing snowboarder <strong>Phillip Walker<\/strong>, 22, of San Jose, California was found in a tree well and &#8220;covered in several inches of snow&#8221; just before noon Sunday, March 27, 2011 at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraattahoe.com\/\">Sierra-at-Tahoe<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/edhtelegraph.com\/detail\/174843.html\" target=\"_blank\">El Dorado Hills Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to El Dorado County Sheriff officials, Walker may have struck a tree, but it has not been determined if severe winter weather was a contributing factor in the young man\u2019s death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Walker was reportedly snowboarding with his brother on Saturday, March 26, 2011, on the &#8220;Upper Powderhorn Trail&#8221; when he was reported missing. Walker is at least the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=snowboard+death\" target=\"_blank\">17th snowboard death<\/a><\/strong> in North America since December 20, 2010. Our thoughts are with Walker&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/edhtelegraph.com\/detail\/174843.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eldorado Hills Telegraph<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each storm seems to bring more bad news. The body of missing snowboarder Phillip Walker, 22, of San Jose, California was found in a tree well and &#8220;covered in several inches of snow&#8221; just before noon Sunday, March 27, 2011 at Sierra-at-Tahoe, according to a story in the El Dorado Hills Telegraph. According to El [&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\/22455"}],"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=22455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22459,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455\/revisions\/22459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}