{"id":40683,"date":"2013-03-19T16:10:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T23:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40683"},"modified":"2013-03-19T16:10:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T23:10:24","slug":"snowboarder-dies-after-hitting-snow-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40683","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Dies After Hitting Snow Fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/8116983.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/8116983.jpg','popup','width=236,height=154,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\/2013\/03\/8116983-tm.jpg\" height=\"130\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"8116983\" \/><\/a><strong>Christopher Sorensen<\/strong>, 21, of Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada died on March 9, 2013 after reportedly hitting a snow fence at Marmot Basin in Jasper National Park, according to a story in the <strong><em>Edmonton Journal<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe was there with a few friends, videoing, having some fun. It looks like he just caught an edge and went into a snow fence,\u201d said Jasper RCMP Sgt. <strong>Dave Maludzinksi<\/strong>. . . Sorensen was wearing a helmet, Maludzinksi added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/investigations\/ci_22820133\/colorado-skiers-die-groomed-blue-runs-after-hitting\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado ski injury numbers quoted in the <\/a><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/investigations\/ci_22820133\/colorado-skiers-die-groomed-blue-runs-after-hitting\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong><em>,<\/em><\/strong> this kind of accident happens much more often than you would expect. Our thoughts are with Sorensen&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/travel\/Sherwood+Park+killed+snowboarding+accident\/8116982\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Journal<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/investigations\/ci_22820133\/colorado-skiers-die-groomed-blue-runs-after-hitting\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Sorensen, 21, of Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada died on March 9, 2013 after reportedly hitting a snow fence at Marmot Basin in Jasper National Park, according to a story in the Edmonton Journal. \u201cHe was there with a few friends, videoing, having some fun. It looks like he just caught an edge and went [&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\/40683"}],"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=40683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40684,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40683\/revisions\/40684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}