{"id":5743,"date":"2009-02-26T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2009-02-26T10:35:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T18:35:28","slug":"snowboarder-saved-from-tree-well-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5743","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Saved From Tree Well Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/news-treewellcrop-2-26-t640.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/news-treewellcrop-2-26-t640.jpg','popup','width=640,height=284,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\/news-treewellcrop-2-26-t640-tm.jpg\" height=\"88\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"News Treewellcrop 2-26 T640\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steamboat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steamboat Ski Resort<\/a><\/strong> ski patroller <strong>Paula Lepporoli<\/strong> jumped right into action when she saw a snowboard sticking out of some branches while she skied through the trees on the resort&#8217;s Typhoon run, and a 40-year-old snowboarder from Denver has her to thank for saving his life, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steamboatpilot.com\/news\/2009\/feb\/26\/ski_patroller_saves_snowboarder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steamboat Pilot.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lepporoli\u2019s training kicked in as she popped off her skis and rushed to help. She dug out the rider\u2019s head, stuck 3 1\/2 feet under the snow in a tree well. . . . \u201cHe wasn\u2019t breathing when I got there, and I cleared his airways, and he started breathing,\u201d the 20-year Ski Patrol veteran said. \u201cIt took us 10 minutes to get him out of there.\u201d. . . The 40-year-old Denver man survived and wasn\u2019t hospitalized, Lepporoli said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A few minutes later and the man&#8217;s wife and three-year-old son would have lost a husband and father. Reminds us to stick together in the trees. This can happen to anyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steamboatpilot.com\/news\/2009\/feb\/26\/ski_patroller_saves_snowboarder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steamboat Pilot<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steamboat Ski Resort ski patroller Paula Lepporoli jumped right into action when she saw a snowboard sticking out of some branches while she skied through the trees on the resort&#8217;s Typhoon run, and a 40-year-old snowboarder from Denver has her to thank for saving his life, according to a story in the Steamboat Pilot. Lepporoli\u2019s [&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\/5743"}],"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=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5751,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions\/5751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}