{"id":37642,"date":"2022-10-26T23:40:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T05:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/helicopter-rescues-horseback-rider-injured-on-snowy-trail-near-mancos\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:39:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:39:04","slug":"helicopter-rescues-horseback-rider-injured-on-snowy-trail-near-mancos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/helicopter-rescues-horseback-rider-injured-on-snowy-trail-near-mancos\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter rescues horseback rider injured on snowy trail near Mancos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=07078b9a-7c83-583d-901a-e68c320ddb33&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Classic Air Medical, based at Southwest Memorial Hospital, rescued an injured motorcyclist in the La Plata Mountains Monday. (Courtesy Southwest Health System)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Classic Air Medical, based at Southwest Memorial Hospital, rescued an injured motorcyclist in the La Plata Mountains Monday. (Courtesy Southwest Health System)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A Classic Air Medical helicopter rescued a horseback rider from a snowy trail northeast of Mancos early Wednesday evening after the horse reportedly fell on the rider.<\/p>\n<p>According to Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin, the rider, identified only as a male, was bleeding profusely after a stick impaled his leg during the fall.<\/p>\n<p>He was riding in an area north of Mancos near the Gold Run Trail, north of the Jersey Jim Lookout Tower, said Deputy Mike Morris of the Mancos Marshal\u2019s Office. The trail begins at Forest Service Road 561 \u2013 West Mancos Road \u2013 at about 10,600 feet in elevation. It ends at Forest Trail 607, or Bear Creek Trail, on Burro Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the Mancos Marshal\u2019s Office and Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to the scene after being alerted to the accident shortly after 4 p.m. By 5 p.m., Morris said, the helicopter had picked up the rider, and the officers turned back.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear how the injury occurred. About 5 inches of snow was on the ground, according to a dispatcher.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"naviga-map\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=37.518575831577%2C-108.14348606917&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>injured in fall, marshal\u2019s deputy says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,1300,83,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-37642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-horseback-riding","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37642","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=37642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83727,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37642\/revisions\/83727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37642"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=37642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}