{"id":36515,"date":"2023-01-02T17:20:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T00:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-killed-in-avalanche-near-breckenridge-ski-resort\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:31:51","slug":"man-killed-in-avalanche-near-breckenridge-ski-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-killed-in-avalanche-near-breckenridge-ski-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in avalanche near Breckenridge Ski Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6a289478-f173-5b53-a6f0-72c755e8725e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1119\" height=\"826\" alt=\"A photo of the fatal avalanche near Breckenridge on Dec. 31, 2022. (Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A photo of the fatal avalanche near Breckenridge on Dec. 31, 2022. (Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A man was killed Saturday afternoon in an avalanche near Breckenridge Ski Resort, becoming the second avalanche fatality in Colorado this winter season.<\/p>\n<p>Summit County Rescue Group said the avalanche happened in a backcountry area called The Numbers, which is on Peak 10 just outside the Breckenridge Ski Resort boundary. A man and his adult son were caught in the slide.<\/p>\n<p>The father was partially buried while the son was fully buried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe father was able to dig himself out and had to ski out of the area to get cellphone reception for the 911 call, which he made at 1:40 p.m.\u201d Summit County Rescue Group said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The son\u2019s body was found by first responders at about 3:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s name and age weren\u2019t immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 26 a backcountry tourer was killed in an avalanche in Grand County near Berthoud Pass.<\/p>\n<p>Seven people were killed in avalanches during the 2021-22 winter in Colorado. Twelve were killed in avalanches during the 2020-21 winter, while six were killed during the 2019-2020 winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue Group said the avalanche happened in a backcountry area called The Numbers, which is outside the Breckenridge Ski Resort boundary on Peak 10 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[377,120,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-36515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-avalanche-landslide","tag-colorado","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83365,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36515\/revisions\/83365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36515"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=36515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}