{"id":3691,"date":"2009-01-02T19:38:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T03:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2009-01-02T20:48:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T04:48:47","slug":"whistler-posts-guards-on-closed-terrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3691","title":{"rendered":"Whistler Posts Guards on Closed Terrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/uniform1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/uniform1.jpg','popup','width=350,height=510,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/uniform1-tm.jpg\" height=\"145\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Uniform1\" \/><\/a>To keep snowboarders and skiers from ducking ropes in to dangerous terrain, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whistlerblackcomb.com\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Whistler-Blackcomb <\/a><\/strong>has posted guards to stand watch over popular out-of-bounds spots, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/topics\/news\/national\/story.html?id=1135938\" target=\"_blank\">Canada.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The areas where the deadly slides occurred had earlier been marked out-of-bounds and &#8220;not recommended&#8221; for use as a result of avalanche warnings based on the snow conditions. Those runs are now marked &#8220;closed&#8221; and guards are turning people away, said Whistler Blackcomb official <strong>Doug Forseth<\/strong>. . . . He said the resort is taking a &#8220;zero tolerance&#8221; attitude toward anyone caught sneaking into the closed areas, and employees will seize season&#8217;s passes. . . . &#8220;This is very serious. We don&#8217;t want to pull them out or call their families, or put our people in danger,&#8221; Forseth said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With three avalanches and two deaths in two days, it&#8217;s probably a good idea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/topics\/news\/national\/story.html?id=1135938\" target=\"_blank\">Canada.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To keep snowboarders and skiers from ducking ropes in to dangerous terrain, Whistler-Blackcomb has posted guards to stand watch over popular out-of-bounds spots, according to a story on Canada.com. The areas where the deadly slides occurred had earlier been marked out-of-bounds and &#8220;not recommended&#8221; for use as a result of avalanche warnings based on the [&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":[14,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691"}],"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=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}