{"id":41525,"date":"2022-03-23T13:53:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T19:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/authorities-respond-to-report-of-avalanche-on-berthoud-pass\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T19:53:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T19:53:01","slug":"authorities-respond-to-report-of-avalanche-on-berthoud-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/authorities-respond-to-report-of-avalanche-on-berthoud-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities respond to report of  avalanche on Berthoud Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9eebdbe5-9f66-587b-981a-235b97c202be&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1095\" alt=\"Berthoud Pass. (Melissa Gutierrez via Flickr)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Berthoud Pass. (Melissa Gutierrez via Flickr)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>No one was caught in an avalanche on Berthoud Pass, Grand County authorities said Wednesday afternoon after search and rescue teams were called to investigate a report that two people may have been buried.<\/p>\n<p>First responders searched the area by air and on the ground using beacons and avalanche-trained rescue dogs and confirmed that there were no victims in the slide, the Grand County Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams saw tracks that were near the slide area exit another location, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Dispatch received a report around 11 a.m. about a possible avalanche in the Current Creek drainage, which is on the west side of Berthoud Pass. First responders searched a snowfield above treeline, known at the \u201cPostage Stamp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, a backcountry tourer was caught and partially buried in the Postage Stamp and in 2013, two skiers were caught. All three survived.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office, Grand County Search &amp; Rescue, EMS and Winter Park\u2019s Ski Patrol Dog Team responded.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, six backcountry travelers have been killed in avalanches this season, including three snowshoers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/div>\n<p>The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to covering Colorado issues. To learn more, go to coloradosun.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First responders received a report that two people may have been buried but later determined that no one was caught<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-41525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41525"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=41525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}