{"id":28247,"date":"2012-01-29T11:32:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T19:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28247"},"modified":"2012-02-03T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T19:35:18","slug":"snowboarder-dies-in-big-cottonwood-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28247","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Dies In Big Cottonwood Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utah snowboarder\u00a0<strong>Alecsander Barton<\/strong>, 24, died Saturday, Janaury 28, 2012 after being buried in a self-triggered 700-foot-wide avalanche after dropping in from the top of Kessler Peak, according to a story in the <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/705398270\/Avalanche-claims-back-country-skier-in-Utah.html?s_cid=s10\">Deseret News<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barton&#8217;s death came on the heels of a slew of avalanche warnings prompted by heavy snowfall and weak snowpack. . .\u00a0&#8220;The backcountry conditions are extremely dangerous,&#8221; Hoyal said. &#8220;This is a sad reminder for people to know that conditions are so extreme right now that people need to stay out of the backcountry.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Barton was riding with two friends at the time of his death, and though they were not buried and had proper avalanche equipment it was not enough to save Barton&#8217;s life. Our thoughts are with Barton&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/705398270\/Avalanche-claims-back-country-skier-in-Utah.html?s_cid=s10\">Deseret News<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah snowboarder\u00a0Alecsander Barton, 24, died Saturday, Janaury 28, 2012 after being buried in a self-triggered 700-foot-wide avalanche after dropping in from the top of Kessler Peak, according to a story in the Deseret News. Barton&#8217;s death came on the heels of a slew of avalanche warnings prompted by heavy snowfall and weak snowpack. . .\u00a0&#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/28247"}],"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=28247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28249,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28247\/revisions\/28249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}