{"id":4877,"date":"2009-02-04T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T17:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2009-02-04T09:15:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T17:15:33","slug":"snowboarders-survive-backcountry-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4877","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarders Survive Backcountry Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bilde-1.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bilde-1.jpeg','popup','width=550,height=366,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\/02\/bilde-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bilde-1\" \/><\/a>Two snowboarders and a skier were reportedly in the Gore Mountain Range when they triggered a &#8220;Class 3 Avalanche&#8221; on January 16, 2009. All three men were buried for at least an hour before one managed to dig out, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/article\/20090203\/NEWS\/902039974\/1058&amp;title='AvaLung'%20helped%20trio%20survive%20Vail-area%20avalanche\" target=\"_blank\">Aspen Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. They survived thanks to a device called an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avalung.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avalung<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the report, the longest and deepest burial lasted 2 hours, 15 minutes (determined with the aid of digital photo time stamps) under about 7 feet of snow. . . . Other than a guardian angel, Sawtell believes one thing the men had going for them was preparation. All were equipped with the standard backcountry snow tools of avalanche beacons, shovels and probe poles. . . . But perhaps equally significant was they all had an AvaLung, invented in 2000 by Denver psychiatry professor and backcountry skiing enthusiast Tom Crowley. <strong>Black Diamond<\/strong> spent a half-million dollars making the design practical, and the version on the market now \u2014 AvaLung II \u2014 came out in 2001.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds a little like a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackdiamondequipment.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Diamond<\/a><\/strong> ad to us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/article\/20090203\/NEWS\/902039974\/1058&amp;title='AvaLung'%20helped%20trio%20survive%20Vail-area%20avalanche\" target=\"_blank\">Aspen Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two snowboarders and a skier were reportedly in the Gore Mountain Range when they triggered a &#8220;Class 3 Avalanche&#8221; on January 16, 2009. All three men were buried for at least an hour before one managed to dig out, according to a story in the Aspen Times. They survived thanks to a device called an [&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\/4877"}],"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=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4878,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}