{"id":5682,"date":"2009-02-25T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T17:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2009-02-25T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T17:20:11","slug":"stephen-koch-fired-for-snowmobiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5682","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Koch Fired For Snowmobiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/thumb-createphp.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/thumb-createphp.jpeg','popup','width=250,height=186,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\/2009\/02\/thumb-createphp-tm.jpg\" height=\"148\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Thumb Create.Php\" \/><\/a>After seeing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lnmk3pdkWIA\" target=\"_blank\">video footage<\/a><\/strong> of guide <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenkoch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Koch<\/a><\/strong> using a snowmobile in an area where they are not allowed for skiers and snowboarders, Jackson Hole, Wyoming&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exumguides.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exum Mountain Guides<\/a><\/strong> fired the extreme snowboarding pioneer after 15 years of service, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhguide.com\/article.php?art_id=4297\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Hole Guide<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The action by the prestigious guide service came as park officials cited Koch twice for a Feb. 7 excursion that was videotaped and displayed on several Web sites, including <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenkoch.com\/2009\/02\/mount-morans-skillet-glacier-winter-ascent-and-descent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Koch\u2019s own<\/a><\/strong>. The world-famous alpinist was sacked even as he offered a public apology, printed as this week\u2019s Jackson Hole News &#38; Guide guest editorial, saying he suffered \u201ca lapse of my good judgment,\u201d in making and publicizing his trip.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, the kind of snowmobile that Koch used (a four-stroke) is legal for fisherman, but not for skiers and snowboarders. Apparently, they forgot to stop and do some ice fishing on the way to the Skillet Glacier. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhguide.com\/article.php?art_id=4297\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Hole Guide<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing video footage of guide Stephen Koch using a snowmobile in an area where they are not allowed for skiers and snowboarders, Jackson Hole, Wyoming&#8217;s Exum Mountain Guides fired the extreme snowboarding pioneer after 15 years of service, according to a story in the Jackson Hole Guide. The action by the prestigious guide service [&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\/5682"}],"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=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5683,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions\/5683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}