{"id":9465,"date":"2009-07-27T14:34:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T21:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9465"},"modified":"2009-07-27T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T21:35:00","slug":"foolish-snowboarders-trigger-nz-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9465","title":{"rendered":"Foolish Snowboarders Trigger NZ Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five men were nearly killed near New Zealand&#8217;s Remarkable&#8217;s ski area when they set off an avalanche on Saturday, July 25, 2009 that resulted in 1,000 &#8220;tonnes&#8221; of snow sliding down the mountain, according to Radio NZ.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chris Cochraine, an avalanche forecaster for the Mountain Safety Council in Queenstown, says the men were not prepared and were not carrying locator transponders or shovels. . . . Mr Cochraine says the men are lucky to be alive, and that their actions were foolish when clear warnings had been given about avoiding steep terrain. . . He says the avalanche risk in the region is the worst he has seen in 25 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Be careful out there. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/news\/stories\/2009\/07\/27\/1245bca73eff\" target=\"_blank\">Radio New Zealand<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five men were nearly killed near New Zealand&#8217;s Remarkable&#8217;s ski area when they set off an avalanche on Saturday, July 25, 2009 that resulted in 1,000 &#8220;tonnes&#8221; of snow sliding down the mountain, according to Radio NZ. Chris Cochraine, an avalanche forecaster for the Mountain Safety Council in Queenstown, says the men were not prepared [&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\/9465"}],"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=9465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9466,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465\/revisions\/9466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}