{"id":3344,"date":"2008-12-18T07:38:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T15:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2008-12-18T07:43:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T15:43:53","slug":"patroller-suvives-mammoth-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3344","title":{"rendered":"Patroller Suvives Mammoth Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early Tuesday morning it appears that <strong>Mammoth Mountain&#8217;s<\/strong> Dragon&#8217;s Tail slid and took patroller <strong>Corey Denton<\/strong> for a 1,000 foot ride, according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/outposts\/2008\/12\/a-mammoth-mount.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Denton and another patroller were ski-cutting, or using their skis to trigger avalanches in preparation for the opening of that portion of terrain to skiers and snowboarders. . . . The snow broke loose above Denton, however, and took him on a 1,000-foot ride down the slope. He managed to keep his head above the snow but at some point slammed into a tree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His partner watched Denton the whole way and got him to the hospital where it turned out he only had a couple cracked ribs. Only?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/outposts\/2008\/12\/a-mammoth-mount.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Tuesday morning it appears that Mammoth Mountain&#8217;s Dragon&#8217;s Tail slid and took patroller Corey Denton for a 1,000 foot ride, according to the LA Times. Denton and another patroller were ski-cutting, or using their skis to trigger avalanches in preparation for the opening of that portion of terrain to skiers and snowboarders. . . [&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":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344"}],"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=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}