{"id":42781,"date":"2022-01-10T17:36:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T00:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-snowshoers-dog-killed-in-backcountry-avalanche-near-breckenridge\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:09:30","slug":"two-snowshoers-dog-killed-in-backcountry-avalanche-near-breckenridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-snowshoers-dog-killed-in-backcountry-avalanche-near-breckenridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Two snowshoers, dog killed in backcountry avalanche near Breckenridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f0f04d6b-3b6b-528a-b5a3-914905701fdc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"The avalanche debris on Hoosier Pass that killed two snowshoers and their dog. (Courtesy of Colorado Avalanche Information Center)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The avalanche debris on Hoosier Pass that killed two snowshoers and their dog. (Courtesy of Colorado Avalanche Information Center)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Two people snowshoeing with their dog were killed Saturday in a large avalanche near Breckenridge. The dog also died in the slide.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Avalanche Information Center said the avalanche happened on Hoosier Pass, which is just south of Breckenridge off Colorado 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe avalanche broke about 400 feet wide, ran about 250 vertical feet and broke into old snow layers,\u201d the CAIC said in a preliminary report.<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche investigators said the two people and their dog \u201cwere completely buried by avalanche debris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche danger in Summit County and around Vail is elevated after recent heavy snowfall.<\/p>\n<p>The two people killed in the avalanche Saturday are the second and third to die in an avalanche in Colorado this year. Ralph Eberspacher, a 54-year-old from Fort Collins, died earlier this month in an avalanche near Cameron Pass in Jackson County.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-02dcaa3e3b8fb2a2a4735c9e3dcdb20b\">The Coloradoan<\/em> reports Eberspacher was an avid backcountry skier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" id=\"link-1e31edf630618620f14cff88643ed580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-03cc7f32c8f5721d350fdcc8f1c86481\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to covering Colorado issues. To learn more, go to coloradosun.com<\/em><\/a><em id=\"emphasis-03cc7f32c8f5721d350fdcc8f1c86481\">.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>happened on Hoosier Pass, off Colorado Highway 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[377,233,28,976],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-42781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-avalanche-landslide","tag-coloradosun-com","tag-headlines","tag-outdoor-recreation"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42781","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=42781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85454,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42781\/revisions\/85454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42781"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=42781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}