{"id":3932,"date":"2009-01-08T18:33:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T02:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2009-01-08T18:37:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T02:37:01","slug":"snowcat-caught-in-whistler-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3932","title":{"rendered":"Snowcat Caught In Whistler Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning a snowcat and driver were caught in an avalanche while grooming an access road on Whistler Mountain in an area that was closed to the public, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piquenewsmagazine.com\/pique\/index.php?content=Groomer+avalanche+1603\" target=\"_blank\">Pique Newsmagazine<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The machine was operating on Pika\u2019s Traverse when the slide occurred at approximately 1:30 a.m. Thursday, according to a release from Whistler Blackcomb. The slide pushed the snow groomer sideways approximately 100 metres down the side of the run. . . .The driver of the snowcat sustained minor injuries from broken glass that cut his hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn, Whistler certainly is having trouble keeping snow on the mountain. This is the fourth avalanche at the resort since December 31, 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piquenewsmagazine.com\/pique\/index.php?content=Groomer+avalanche+1603\" target=\"_blank\">Pique Newsmagazine<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning a snowcat and driver were caught in an avalanche while grooming an access road on Whistler Mountain in an area that was closed to the public, according to a story on Pique Newsmagazine. The machine was operating on Pika\u2019s Traverse when the slide occurred at approximately 1:30 a.m. Thursday, according to a [&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\/3932"}],"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=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}