{"id":65780,"date":"2019-07-05T21:47:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T21:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/climber-injured-at-cascade-falls-north-of-durango\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:46:09","slug":"climber-injured-at-cascade-falls-north-of-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/climber-injured-at-cascade-falls-north-of-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Climber injured at Cascade Falls north of Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c481e93f-ec04-4480-bea6-f3b5a8cf4de1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1850\" height=\"1792\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A climber was seriously injured Friday afternoon after falling 30 feet in Cascade Falls, according to La Plata County Search and Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The man fell about 1:30 p.m., and crews were getting ready to extract him from the canyon about 2:30 p.m., said Ron Corkish, president of La Plata County Search and Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency responders called in an air ambulance to transport the man for medical care, he said.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County Search and Rescue was assisting other agencies at the scene, Corkish said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ambulance called to transport man<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6232,5985,5736,5735,5968],"tags":[3033,1807,1562],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cascade","category-la-plata-county-search-and-rescue","category-local-news","category-news","category-san-juan-county-colorado","tag-cascade","tag-la-plata-county-search-and-rescue","tag-san-juan-county-colorado"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65780","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=65780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93087,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65780\/revisions\/93087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65780"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}