{"id":3506,"date":"2008-12-22T16:42:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2008-12-22T16:42:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T00:42:36","slug":"snowboarder-dies-in-colorado-avalanche-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3506","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Dies In Colorado Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends reported Crested Butte snowboarder <strong>Michael Bowen<\/strong>, 36, missing on Thursday after he did not return from a snowboard trip in the &#8220;Happy Chutes&#8221; on the east side of Mount Emmons.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He frequently and routinely skied in precarious, extreme conditions, hundreds of times,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;The . . . area he was in could only be accessed by an expert.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_11290306\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong> Bowen&#8217;s body was found Saturday December 20, 2008 under 3 to 4 feet of snow at the bottom of an avalanche path.&#8221; The avalanche was located below the ridge of Trapper&#8217;s Way in the backcountry three miles south of the Crested Butte Ski Area. A memorial services will be held in Crested Butte on January 3, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_11290306\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Post<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\/news\/article.aspx?storyid=106415&amp;catid=188\" target=\"_blank\">9news.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends reported Crested Butte snowboarder Michael Bowen, 36, missing on Thursday after he did not return from a snowboard trip in the &#8220;Happy Chutes&#8221; on the east side of Mount Emmons. &#8220;He frequently and routinely skied in precarious, extreme conditions, hundreds of times,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;The . . . area he was in could only [&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\/3506"}],"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=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}