{"id":5996,"date":"2009-03-03T19:56:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T03:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2009-03-03T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T04:00:57","slug":"snowboarder-breaks-both-legs-in-bc-avlanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5996","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Breaks Both Legs In BC Avlanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old snowboarder from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada is lucky to be alive today after being swept away in an avalanche while riding out of bounds at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountwashington.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mt. Washington<\/a>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/Sports\/Victoria+snowboarder+breaks+legs+lucky+alive+after+bounds+avalanche\/1349476\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Sun<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. His friends reported him missing at 3:30 PM.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two hours later, at 5:30 p.m., searchers heard the boy calling for help near a precipice and were only able to reach him by descending on ropes. . . .The avalanche had pushed him up against a tree, which rescuers said saved him from being pushed over the cliff. . . .When rescuers uncovered him, they found he was hypothermic and both his legs were broken. . . He was taken to St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital in Comox, then air-lifted to B.C. Children\u2019s Hospital in Vancouver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/Sports\/Victoria+snowboarder+breaks+legs+lucky+alive+after+bounds+avalanche\/1349476\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Sun<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old snowboarder from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada is lucky to be alive today after being swept away in an avalanche while riding out of bounds at Mt. Washington, according to a story in the Vancouver Sun. His friends reported him missing at 3:30 PM. Two hours later, at 5:30 p.m., searchers heard the boy [&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\/5996"}],"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=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5998,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/5998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}