{"id":49660,"date":"2020-12-28T02:47:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T09:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/berthoud-pass-skier-becomes-colorados-fourth-avalanche-death-this-season\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:48:13","slug":"berthoud-pass-skier-becomes-colorados-fourth-avalanche-death-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/berthoud-pass-skier-becomes-colorados-fourth-avalanche-death-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Berthoud Pass skier becomes Colorado\u2019s fourth avalanche death this season"},"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=2ec25e90-d219-4682-b389-b018194aa780&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1308\" height=\"1322\" alt=\"Grandf County Search and Rescue reports on its Facebook page that a backcountry skier was caught and killed in an avalanche.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Grandf County Search and Rescue reports on its Facebook page that a backcountry skier was caught and killed in an avalanche.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Grand County Search and Rescue, via Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A backcountry skier who was on a solo outing on Berthoud Pass became Colorado\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>Grand County Search and Rescue said the man\u2019s body was discovered after he was reported overdue by family members.<\/p>\n<p>Crews responding to the First Creek area found avalanche debris and then located a pair of goggles. The man\u2019s body was then discovered.<\/p>\n\n<p>Grand County Search and Rescue says the man was fully buried and not wearing an avalanche transceiver, a device that sends out an electronic signal so that avalanche victims can be found if and when they are buried under snow. The device is a basic, key avalanche safety tool for backcountry users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease, please, please be careful out there,\u201d Grand County Search and Rescue said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month three men were killed in a<a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2020\/12\/27\/berthoud-pass-avalanche-grand-county-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> pair of avalanches <\/a>over two days. All of them were experiences backcountry skiers.<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche experts have been warning backcountry users that Colorado\u2019s snowpack is very unstable this year and that they should use extra caution.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2020\/12\/27\/berthoud-pass-avalanche-grand-county-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, journalist-owned news outlet exploring issues of statewide interest. Sign up for a newsletter and read more at coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2020\/12\/27\/berthoud-pass-avalanche-grand-county-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man\u2019s body was discovered after he was reported overdue by family members<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[377,233,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-avalanche-landslide","tag-coloradosun-com","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49660","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=49660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87616,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49660\/revisions\/87616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49660"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}