{"id":22470,"date":"2011-03-28T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22470"},"modified":"2011-03-30T08:23:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T15:23:58","slug":"avalanche-kills-snowboarder-near-stevens-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22470","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche Kills Snowboarder Near Stevens Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old snowboarder died Sunday, March 27, 2011 in an avalanche out of bounds near <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenspass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stevens Pass<\/a><\/strong> in Washington, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/local\/437811_stevens28.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle PI<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The victim and three friends were snowboarding when the man went down the hill in a slightly different direction than the others and was hit from behind by an avalanche and carried into a tree,&#8221; King County Sgt. John Urquhart said in a statement. &#8220;The three other men were not injured and managed to dig the victim out. He suffered injuries from hitting the tree and was not breathing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The name of the snowboarder has not been released. He is the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=snowboard+death\" target=\"_blank\">18th snowboard death<\/a><\/strong> in North America since December 20, 2010. Our thought are with the snowboarders family and friends. We&#8217;ve been saying this too much this year, but it&#8217;s still true.<\/p>\n<p>[Update March 28, 2011: Authorities have released the name of the snowboarder who died in the avalanche. <strong>Riley McCarthy<\/strong>, 20, of Tukwila, Washington. He was a sophomore at the University of Washington, according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/local\/437837_avalanche28.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle PI<\/a><\/em><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/local\/437811_stevens28.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle PI<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old snowboarder died Sunday, March 27, 2011 in an avalanche out of bounds near Stevens Pass in Washington, according to a story in the Seattle PI. &#8220;The victim and three friends were snowboarding when the man went down the hill in a slightly different direction than the others and was hit from behind by [&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\/22470"}],"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=22470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22489,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470\/revisions\/22489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}