{"id":406474,"date":"2026-01-14T03:35:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/406474\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T03:35:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:35:41","slug":"skier-and-snowboarder-caught-in-avalanche-in-rocky-mountain-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/406474\/","title":{"rendered":"Skier and snowboarder caught in avalanche in Rocky Mountain National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GRAND COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; A group of skiers and snowboarders is now safe after getting stuck in an avalanche at Rocky Mountain National Park, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC). <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The center said that the avalanche occurred over the weekend in Haiyaha Couloir when a group of riders reported ski cutting the upper chute, which triggered the avalanche. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One of the skiers got caught in it. They said he was carried down and briefly buried under the snow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">CAIC said he also dislocated his shoulder while grabbing a tree. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A second rider was also caught as the group went to help the first skier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to CAIC, the group was able to safely exit the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The center confirmed that the avalanche was human-triggered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; A group of skiers and snowboarders is now safe after getting stuck in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,967,991,192,144,5277,5,4843,2323,4841,4,4842,4844,4840],"class_list":["post-406474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-avalanche","tag-avalanche","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-coloradoavalanche","tag-hockey","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-nhl","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-video-updates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115891360713675037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}