{"id":73948,"date":"2019-08-13T21:06:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T03:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/woman-dies-on-colorado-trail-after-tree-falls-on-tent\/"},"modified":"2019-08-14T03:06:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T03:06:41","slug":"woman-dies-on-colorado-trail-after-tree-falls-on-tent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/woman-dies-on-colorado-trail-after-tree-falls-on-tent\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies on Colorado Trail after tree falls on tent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=55cb72b2-e9be-42a6-b4af-3b5df21d82a5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 56-year-old female hiker died on the Colorado Trail after a tree fell on her tent late Monday.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/San-Juan-County-Sheriffs-Office-Colorado-222253791278513\/posts\/?ref=notif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote in a post to social media<\/a> around 1:45 p.m. Tuesday that the incident occurred just under Grizzly Peak, northwest of Engineer Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis a shockingly stark reminder that no matter how safe your actions, the mountains are inherently dangerous,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Office wrote. \u201cPlease be safe out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sheriff\u2019s Office, three female hikers had a tree fall on their tent late Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Beth Skelley of Lafayette died as a result of her injuries. Her two companions were unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue crews from San Juan and La Plata counties responded to the scene Monday night, and a Flight for Life helicopter was called for support. Attempts to revive Skelley were unsuccessful. Search and rescue crews transported her out of the area Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to reach the Sheriff\u2019s Office were unsuccessful Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say incident happened late Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1152,28,1807,1562],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-emergency-incident","tag-headlines","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\/73948","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=73948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73948"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}