{"id":329599,"date":"2026-01-06T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/a-snowmobiler-dies-after-an-avalanche-in-californias-sierra-nevada"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:13:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:13:03","slug":"a-snowmobiler-dies-after-an-avalanche-in-californias-sierra-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/a-snowmobiler-dies-after-an-avalanche-in-californias-sierra-nevada","title":{"rendered":"A snowmobiler dies after an avalanche in California&#8217;s Sierra Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">TRUCKEE, Calif. &#8212; <\/span>An <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/avalanches\">avalanche<\/a> in California&#8217;s Sierra Nevada on Monday buried a snowmobiler in snow and killed him, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Rescuers responded after a 911 call around 2:20 p.m. reported a possible avalanche near Johnson Peak and Castle Peak in Truckee. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The snowmobiler was initially reported missing but then was found under the snow several minutes later, the Nevada County Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fellow recreationists found him but he didn&#8217;t survive despite lifesaving efforts, according to the statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Emergency personnel were working to safely extract the victim late Monday and to confirm no others were buried.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The sheriff&#8217;s office said more avalanches could occur and recommended that people avoid the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Each winter, 25 to 30 people die in avalanches in the U.S., according to the National Avalanche Center. The center\u2019s <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/avalanche.org\/#\/current\">current map<\/a> shows high risk spots in Utah and Washington and areas of considerable risk in California, Colorado, Idaho and Wyoming. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/snowmobiler-dies-after-avalanche-californias-sierra-nevada-128934914\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRUCKEE, Calif. &#8212; An avalanche in California&#8217;s Sierra Nevada on Monday buried a snowmobiler in snow and killed him, authorities said. Rescuers responded after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[101,2110,3915,1611,5139,7355,7354,173,641,636,7353],"class_list":["post-329599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-california","tag-colorado","tag-county-sheriff","tag-idaho","tag-sheriff","tag-sierra-nevada","tag-truckee","tag-united-states","tag-utah","tag-washington","tag-wyoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329601,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329599\/revisions\/329601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}