{"id":29697,"date":"2012-04-05T09:52:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29697"},"modified":"2012-04-05T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:53:07","slug":"snowboarder-dies-in-blackcomb-tree-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=29697","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Dies In Blackcomb Tree Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A male snowboarder riding <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whistlerblackcomb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blackcomb Mountain&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> Seventh Heaven was found unconscious and not breathing in a tree well  Wednesday at 11 AM, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2012\/04\/04\/bc-snowboarder-killed.html\" target=\"_blank\">CBC News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police said a skier found the snowboarder about 11 a.m. PT Wednesday, head down in snow at the foot of a tree beside a ski run on the mountain called Seventh Heaven. . . \u201cThe skier tried to pull the male from the tree well but was unable to do so,\u201d said RCMP Staff Sgt. <strong>Steve LeClair<\/strong>. . . \u201cHe hiked further up the hill to alert other skiers and snowboarders in the area. Together they were able to pull the male [out].\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The snowboarder  was taking to the Whistler Heath Care Center where he was pronounced dead. Our thoughts are with his friends and family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2012\/04\/04\/bc-snowboarder-killed.html\" target=\"_blank\">CBC News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A male snowboarder riding Blackcomb Mountain&#8217;s Seventh Heaven was found unconscious and not breathing in a tree well Wednesday at 11 AM, according to a story on CBC News. Police said a skier found the snowboarder about 11 a.m. PT Wednesday, head down in snow at the foot of a tree beside a ski run [&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\/29697"}],"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=29697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29699,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29697\/revisions\/29699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}