Snowmass ski patrollers are still trying to figure out how and why a 27-year-old snowboarder ended up at the bottom of a “20-foot cliff in a permanently closed area near the Elk Camp lift,” according to a story in the Aspen Daily News.
According to Aspen Skiing Co. spokesman Jeff Hanle, when his friends found him below the cliff, they called 911 and a nearby ski instructor called ski patrol, who treated the man for multiple injuries and brought him to a waiting ambulance and to Aspen Valley Hospital. The man was wearing a helmet. . . The two companions the man was riding with “didn’t see [the accident] happen – that’s what was in their initial report,” said Hanle. “We can’t tell if he skied off [the cliff] accidentally or on purpose, or at all.”
[Link: Aspen Daily News]
