Colorado ski deaths set a record this year

Greetings from Vail. In case you haven’t heard yet, the skiing here is pretty awesome. The season has been the best “anyone can remember”, I keep hearing from people.

Sadly, it has also been one with the most recorded deaths. On Friday, a man in Aspen jumped off a cliff and died. Yesterday, a 32-year-old Denver-area man in Vail became the 17th skier or snowboarder to die on the Colorado slopes this season, Denver Post reports. The man died after a skiing incident on an intermediate run called The Wuides in Blue Sky Basin at Vail. I am not sure what happened, all I know from the news that the skier was wearing a helmet at the time of the incident. Helmets can only do so much, I guess.

The prior record was tied last weekend when a Kansas man became the 16th death on the slopes. The previous record for deaths was 16, set in the 2001-2002 season. And there’s still great snow and skiing here until at least April 13th…let’s hope that’s it for fatal accidents this year.

Be safe out there. The bottom areas get icy. More on that later. I’m kinda busy conducting “apres ski” research right now.

Photo: Sweet and Bitter

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