{"id":41673,"date":"2022-03-14T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/avalanche-kills-snowmobiler-across-colorado-state-line\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:02:35","slug":"avalanche-kills-snowmobiler-across-colorado-state-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/avalanche-kills-snowmobiler-across-colorado-state-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche kills snowmobiler across Colorado state line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6232634b-1aba-5076-aa81-25a6a6823948&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1352\" alt=\"The approximate location of a snowmobile that was buried Saturday in an avalanche near Willow Park, Wyoming, across the Colorado state line near Steamboat. (Courtesy of Colorado Avalanche Information Center)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The approximate location of a snowmobile that was buried Saturday in an avalanche near Willow Park, Wyoming, across the Colorado state line near Steamboat. (Courtesy of Colorado Avalanche Information Center)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Colorado Avalanche Information Center<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>An avalanche Saturday about 6 miles north of Colorado\u2019s Steamboat and Flat Tops backcountry killed a snowmobiler after a persistent weak layer of snow gave way, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center said.<\/p>\n<p>The slide occurred about 2 p.m. Saturday at an elevation of 10,000 feet in the Encampment River Wilderness near Willow Park, Wyoming. The snowmobile triggered the slide on the northeast-facing slope, CAIC said.<\/p>\n<p>The avalanche center compared the conditions to those that have caused avalanches in Western Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like the same persistent weak layer we are dealing with in Colorado,\u201d CAIC said.<\/p>\n<p>The avalanche center also reported a backcountry snow slide above treeline in the Commodore Basin area of Red Mountain Pass on Sunday. And CAIC observed evidence of five naturally occurring slides in the Camp Creek\/Sheep Mountain area near Lizard Head in the southern San Juan Mountains on March 10-12.<\/p>\n<p>CAIC reported Monday that the risk of avalanche in the northern and southern San Juans was \u201cmoderate,\u201d or Level 2 on a five-point scale that ranges from \u201clow\u201d to \u201cextreme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Avalanches have killed 12 people have died in U.S. this season \u2013 four in Colorado, four in Montana, two in Idaho, and one each in Wyoming and Washington. Six of the fatalities were snowmobilers, three were hikers, and three were skiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of 12 fatal slides this season, six have involved snowmobiles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-41673","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\/41673","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=41673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85055,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41673\/revisions\/85055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41673"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=41673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}