{"id":436618,"date":"2025-02-22T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T06:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=436618"},"modified":"2025-02-22T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T06:43:06","slug":"snowboarder-killed-in-colorado-avalanche-in-4th-slide-death-in-west-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/snowboarder-killed-in-colorado-avalanche-in-4th-slide-death-in-west-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder killed in Colorado avalanche in 4th slide death in West this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SILVERTON, Colo. (AP) \u2014 A snowboarder was killed in an avalanche in the mountains of southwestern Colorado on Thursday, the fourth person to die in an avalanche in the U.S. West this week after a string of winter storms.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Steinwand, 41, of Crested Butte, Colorado, was caught in the debris of the avalanche in the backcountry near Silverton, but a man who was skiing with the snowboarder escaped the snow slide, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center said. Staff from a nearby backcountry hut noticed the avalanche, alerted rescuers and helped the skier dig Steinwand out of the debris, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Three people died in avalanches Monday \u2014 one person near Lake Tahoe in California and\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">two backcountry skiers<\/span>\u00a0in Oregon\u2019s Cascade Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The avalanche danger was elevated for most of Colorado\u2019s mountains earlier this week but conditions have improved somewhat in some areas.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: AP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SILVERTON, Colo. (AP) \u2014 A snowboarder was killed in an avalanche in the mountains of southwestern Colorado on Thursday, the fourth person to die in an avalanche in the U.S. West this week after a string of winter storms. Sarah Steinwand, 41, of Crested Butte, Colorado, was caught in the debris of the avalanche in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":436619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-436618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436620,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436618\/revisions\/436620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}