{"id":40790,"date":"2013-03-26T12:52:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T19:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40790"},"modified":"2013-03-26T13:21:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T20:21:40","slug":"snowboarder-sues-mammoth-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40790","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Sues Mammoth Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/snowcat.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/snowcat.jpg','popup','width=640,height=425,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\/2013\/03\/snowcat-tm.jpg\" height=\"132\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Snowcat\" \/><\/a>A snowboarder who was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22484\" target=\"_blank\">injured after a collision with a snow cat at Mammoth Mountain<\/a><\/strong> in 2011 is suing the mountain according to a post on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2013\/03\/25\/snowboarder_sues_mammoth_mountain_ski_area.php\" target=\"_blank\">LAist.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Kathleen Willhide-Michiulis<\/strong>, 45, of Saugus was snowboarding at the resort on March 25, 2011, when snowcat driver <strong>Clifford Mann<\/strong> allegedly turned in front of her unexpectedly. She became entangled in the machine&#8217;s tiller, and it took rescue workers about 30 minutes to disengage her legs from it. . . Willhide-Michiulis suffered serious, debilitating injuries in the accident. Her left leg was partially amputated above the knee, her right leg sustained multiple fractures and she suffered a brain injury, according to City News Service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The woman is also suing the Kassbohrer company for a &#8220;negligently designed&#8221; snow cat. This is like one more reason why many resorts no longer operate snow cats on the mountain when the public is on the hill. Then again, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.aol.co.uk\/2013\/03\/20\/british-snowboarder-crushed-by-piste-basher-in-solden-austrian-alps\/\" target=\"_blank\">same thing happened in Solden, Austria last week<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2013\/03\/25\/snowboarder_sues_mammoth_mountain_ski_area.php\" target=\"_blank\">LAist<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A snowboarder who was injured after a collision with a snow cat at Mammoth Mountain in 2011 is suing the mountain according to a post on LAist.com. Kathleen Willhide-Michiulis, 45, of Saugus was snowboarding at the resort on March 25, 2011, when snowcat driver Clifford Mann allegedly turned in front of her unexpectedly. She became [&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\/40790"}],"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=40790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40806,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40790\/revisions\/40806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}