{"id":35456,"date":"2023-04-19T10:12:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T15:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/?post_type=survivor-stories&p=35456"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:30:09","slug":"skiing-accident-plb-backcountry-rescue","status":"publish","type":"survivor-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/survivor-stories\/skiing-accident-plb-backcountry-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Skier In Colorado Rescued by Personal Locator Beacon After Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

February 10, 2023, started out like any normal day.\u00a0The blue sky and temperatures that were expected to be in the high 30s. I loaded up our 2 dogs and decided to do a little back country skiing. Grabbed my day pack, tested my ACR beacon<\/a>, let my wife know exactly where I was going and off, we went. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was heading back to my truck but decided to do one more run, I had done this run earlier in the day without any problems. This time I came out of my previous tracks and crashed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unknown to me there was a tree stump under the snow where I landed. I suffered blunt force trauma to my upper right femur. I would later discover that it was broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This happened at 1:30pm. I deployed my beacon at 1:40pm. Emergency responders showed up around 3:30pm. At that point I had been laying in the snow for about 2 hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they got to me, I was shivering uncontrollably. I was going into severe hypothermia. They assessed my injury and immediately started warming me up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were eventually able to get me onto a rescue sled and manually pulled me down the mountain with great care. It was a slow and methodical process, but their efforts ensured my safety. I was loaded into the ambulance around 4:30 p.m. and transported to the nearest hospital for an initial medical assessment and stabilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the initial evaluation, it was determined that I needed more specialized care. I was then transferred to a larger hospital equipped to handle my condition. There, I underwent surgery the following morning, on February 11th, to address the injuries I had sustained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would not be here today if I wouldn’t have had my ResQLink<\/a> beacon. It saved my life.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When they got to me I was shivering uncontrollably. I was going into severe hypothermia. They assessed my injury and immediately started warming me up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136711,"featured_media":35455,"template":"","survivor-category":[25],"terrain":[21],"survivor-event":[136,129],"survivor-cause":[125,123],"survivor-rescue":[139],"class_list":["post-35456","survivor-stories","type-survivor-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","survivor-category-snow-sports","terrain-mountain","survivor-event-normal-conditions","survivor-event-snow","survivor-cause-crash-or-collision","survivor-cause-medical-emergency","survivor-rescue-local-search-and-rescue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories\/35456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/survivor-stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"survivor-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-category?post=35456"},{"taxonomy":"terrain","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/terrain?post=35456"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-event?post=35456"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-cause","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-cause?post=35456"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-rescue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-rescue?post=35456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}