{"id":39645,"date":"2022-07-05T23:20:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T05:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/injured-motorcyclist-rescued-in-la-plata-mountains-near-mancos\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:50:49","slug":"injured-motorcyclist-rescued-in-la-plata-mountains-near-mancos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/injured-motorcyclist-rescued-in-la-plata-mountains-near-mancos\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured motorcyclist rescued in La Plata Mountains 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 motorcyclist injured July 4 in a crash in the La Plata Mountains was rescued by the Mancos Fire Protection District and Classic Air Medical helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>The man suffered a broken leg when he was ejected from the motorcycle on the Aspen Loop Trail on Forest Road 560 about 1 p.m., said Chief Tony Aspromonte of the Mancos fire department.<\/p>\n<p>A fellow rider rode to cellphone range and called 911, then met rescuers to guide them to the location.<\/p>\n<p>EMTs drove a rescue truck to the site of the crash on a rough trail section in the Lost Canyon area about 15 miles north of Mancos.<\/p>\n<p>The crash victim, who was not identified, was conscious and in relatively good spirits despite his serious injury, Aspromonte said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was grateful to see us and kept up a sense of humor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>His injured leg was stabilized in a traction splint, and he was transported by vehicle to a landing zone at Forest Roads 560 and 561.<\/p>\n<p>Classic Air Medical helicopter, based at Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez, picked up the patient and took him to Mercy Hospital in Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The injury was not life-threatening, Aspromonte said.<\/p>\n<p>About 10 people participated in the rescue effort. Southwest Health System EMS, stationed in Mancos, and a Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy also responded.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/Internet\/FSE_DOCUMENTS\/stelprdb5203289.pdf\" id=\"link-aced288b7c4f66dec3e563e64d5eeba1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aspen Loop Trail<\/a> is a 39-mile multipurpose trail popular with ATVs and motorcycles. The trailhead is at the Transfer Campground, northeast of Mancos in Montezuma County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>suffered broken leg in July 4 crash on Aspen Loop Trail<\/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":[28,83,29,538],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-39645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter","tag-southwest-memorial-hospital"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39645","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=39645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84393,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39645\/revisions\/84393"}],"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=39645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39645"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=39645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}