{"id":26436,"date":"2011-11-13T20:24:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T04:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26436"},"modified":"2011-11-13T20:41:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T04:41:53","slug":"professional-skier-jamie-pierre-dies-snowboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26436","title":{"rendered":"Pro Skier Jamie Pierre Dies Snowboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/jamie_pierre.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/jamie_pierre.jpg','popup','width=194,height=298,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\/2011\/11\/jamie_pierre-tm.jpg\" height=\"153\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Jamie Pierre\" \/><\/a>The 2011-12 snowboarding season has only just begun and already someone has died. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamiepierre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Pierre<\/a><\/strong>, the professional skier who once set the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G0SDQcm0VcU\" target=\"_blank\">world record for biggest cliff drop<\/a><\/strong> (255 feet), died today around 3 PM (Sunday, November 13, 2011) when an avalanche that he triggered near Utah&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbird.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snowbird Resort<\/a><\/strong> swept him off a cliff, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/705394254\/Professional-skier-Jamie-Pierre-killed-in-avalanche-near-Snowbird.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deseret News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a police statement, Pierre was killed Sunday after the slide swept him over a cliff in the South Chute area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pierre reportedly died from injuries he sustained during the fall and he was not buried in the slide. Snowbird resort is not scheduled to open until next week. Our thoughts are with Pierre&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/705394254\/Professional-skier-Jamie-Pierre-killed-in-avalanche-near-Snowbird.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deseret News<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/entertainment\/52907844-78\/avalanche-pierre-resort-kobernik.html.csp\" target=\"_blank\">Salt Lake City Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011-12 snowboarding season has only just begun and already someone has died. Jamie Pierre, the professional skier who once set the world record for biggest cliff drop (255 feet), died today around 3 PM (Sunday, November 13, 2011) when an avalanche that he triggered near Utah&#8217;s Snowbird Resort swept him off a cliff, according [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26441,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436\/revisions\/26441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}