{"id":7556,"date":"2017-01-20T17:54:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T01:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/man-dies-on-snowmobile-trip-from-kotzebue-to-fairbanks\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T17:54:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T01:54:59","slug":"man-dies-on-snowmobile-trip-from-kotzebue-to-fairbanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-dies-on-snowmobile-trip-from-kotzebue-to-fairbanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies on snowmobile trip from Kotzebue to Fairbanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; A man who tried to drive a snowmobile from Kotzebue to Fairbanks was found dead near Selawik Hot Springs.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska State Troopers say searchers Tuesday found the body of 27-year-old Travis Loughridge (LAHK-ridg).<\/p>\n<p>Loughridge left Shungnak at about noon Saturday. His snowmobile towed a plastic sled.<\/p>\n<p>He planned to travel through Huslia and Galena on his way to Fairbanks.<\/p>\n<p>By 5 p.m. Monday, no one had heard from him.<\/p>\n<p>A rescue team from Shungnak searched the trail to Selawik Hot Springs, the midway point between Shungnak and Huslia, but didn&rsquo;t find him.<\/p>\n<p>Huslia searchers found Loughridge on Tuesday near the springs.<\/p>\n<p>His snowmobile was in a nearby water crossing. Troopers say it appears he broke through ice attempting to cross and died of hypothermia.<\/p>\n<p>Extreme cold delayed recovering the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; A man who tried to drive a snowmobile from Kotzebue to Fairbanks was found dead near Selawik Hot Springs. Alaska State Troopers say searchers Tuesday found the body of 27-year-old Travis Loughridge (LAHK-ridg). Loughridge left Shungnak at about noon Saturday. His snowmobile towed a plastic sled. He planned to travel through Huslia and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7556"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}