{"id":6613,"date":"2009-03-19T10:41:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2009-03-19T10:41:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:41:53","slug":"six-snowboarders-lost-in-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6613","title":{"rendered":"Six Snowboarders Lost In Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of six snowboards planned to hike Japan&#8217;s Mt. Kurodake on the north island of Hokkaido to cap off the 2009 season of snowboarding, but when a storm came and they got lost, their plans changed according to a story told by <strong>Chris Holmes<\/strong> to the <strong><em>Times Online<\/em><\/strong>. His first quote kind of explains the situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I\u2019m a relatively inexperienced snowboarder so I didn\u2019t want to go on,\u201d Mr Holmes, 34, told The Times from his home in Hokkaido where he is still trying to get feeling back into his icy cold feet. . . Three of the group continued on to the peak and returned safely to base camp later that evening. But the other six who descended earlier were less fortunate. . . The men and women from New Zealand, Australia and Holland became so lost and disorientated trying to navigate their way down the steep mountainside they were forced to dig a snow cave and sleep huddled together on a bed of pine leaves as the temperature dropped below zero.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another lesson in backcountry snowboarding from the &#8220;inexperienced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article5936341.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Times Online<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of six snowboards planned to hike Japan&#8217;s Mt. Kurodake on the north island of Hokkaido to cap off the 2009 season of snowboarding, but when a storm came and they got lost, their plans changed according to a story told by Chris Holmes to the Times Online. His first quote kind of explains [&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\/6613"}],"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=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6614,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions\/6614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}