{"id":928,"date":"2008-06-27T11:05:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=928"},"modified":"2008-06-27T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T17:13:13","slug":"missing-wolf-creek-snowboarders-bodies-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"Missing Wolf Creek Snowboarders&#8217; Bodies Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of <strong>Michael George<\/strong>, 27, and <strong>Kyle Kerschen<\/strong>, 27, two missing Albuquerque, N.M. snowboarders who vanished at Colorado&#8217;s <strong>Wolf Creek Resort<\/strong> on January 5, 2008 were found after six months of searching Monday, June 23, 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two men were found approximately 500 yards apart in a natural bowl outside ski area boundaries. Kerschen was in a clearing where most of the winter snow had melted away and George was found uphill, leaning against a tree in a wooded area where there was still some snow on the ground.  . . . Downing said both bodies were intact and in a condition to be expected after being covered with heavy snow that had begun melting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The men apparently died of &#8220;hypothermia due to exposure.&#8221; Our thoughts are with the families and friends of the two men.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delnorteprospector.com\/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&amp;page=&amp;story_id=536\" target=\"_blank\">The Del Norte Prospector<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of Michael George, 27, and Kyle Kerschen, 27, two missing Albuquerque, N.M. snowboarders who vanished at Colorado&#8217;s Wolf Creek Resort on January 5, 2008 were found after six months of searching Monday, June 23, 2008. The two men were found approximately 500 yards apart in a natural bowl outside ski area boundaries. Kerschen [&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\/928"}],"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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}