Portland, Oregon snowboarder Levi Krukowski, 19, was found dead at the base of a 40 foot cliff at Mt. Hood Meadows on Monday, March 22, 2010. He had been reported missing an hour early according to a story in the Salem News.
“He had been with friends when he went missing near an area marked as a hazard. The hazard area was marked with a rope. . . “The Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Patrol located Levi rukowski’s body in a creek near the bottom of a waterfall. The creek was within the hazard area and required crossing the rope boundary to access.
His death is being investigated as an accident, according to the story, and an autopsy is scheduled for today. Our thoughts are with Levi’s family and friends.
Former child actor and Snowboard Academy star Corey Haim dropped dead in his apartment this morning after an apparent “accidental overdose” according to a story on Fox6.
Haim died at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday of an apparent accidental overdose, according to the LAPD’s North Hollywood Division. . . . Coroner’s Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said an autopsy would determine an official cause of death. . . Haim collapsed in front of his mother inside an apartment in the Oakwood Apartment Complex, located between Burbank and the Hollywood Hills, officials said.
A Vancouver snowboarder died Saturday, March 6, 2010 after apparently hitting a tree while snowboarding at Big White Ski Resort, according to a story in The Province.
Michael Ballingal, spokesman for Big White, said the young man died while snowboarding in bounds down Whitefoot Bowl run, an intermediate level hill. . . It’s believed the snowboarder may have struck a tree, but Ballingal did not have further details on the circumstances that led to the death. . . “It’s a tragedy. It’s very, very seldom that these things happen, a sudden death like that. It’s so close to home and it’s the first Saturday of spring break,” said Ballingal.
The snowboarders name and age have not been released.
Snowboarder Erica Patterson, 43, of Hidden Hills, California was found dead in a tree well on Saturday, February 27, 2010 on Mammoth Mountain’s Lincoln Mountain, according to a story in the Orange County Register.
At 1:30 p.m. Mammoth Mountain Ski Patrol were told that Patterson. . . had become separated from her husband while snowboarding through the trees. . . .Ski patrollers searched the area and at 4:25 p.m. found Patterson about 50 yards off the side of a run in a tree well. Patterson was found when a senior ski patroller probed tree wells and first discovered her snowboard buried under the snow.
The Mono County Sherriff’s office is investigating Patterson’s death, according to the story, but officials believe she suffocated under about three feet of snow. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.
The snowboarder who died at Killington Resort on Thursday, December 24, 2009 was Alex Westphal, 20, a sophomore at Hofstra University, according to a story on WPIX.com.
Just minutes minutes before his death, Westphal took a cell phone picture at 11:54 a.m. of the mountains and sent it to his parents, who were cross-country skiing. . . . He then began his decent down the resort’s expert slope and apparently hit an object like a pole or sign post. . . Vermont State Police Detective Sam Capogrossi says though the student from Cheshire, Conn. was wearing his helmet, he sustained massive internal injuries.
Westphal was an only child. Our heartfelt sympathies are with his parents, Ryan and Ann.
Kurt Welden, 31, of Austria got in way over his head on the Moelltal Glacier in Carinthia, Austria last week and had to be rescued, according to a story in the Mirror.
A reckless snowboarder clings to the mountainside inches from certain death on the edge of a cliff. . . He had left the safety of the piste . . . in search of fresh powder. . . After stopping he managed to dig away enough snow so his board wouldn’t slip while he waited for help.
Guess the moral of the story is don’t ever ride with Kurt Welden.
The suit, claims medical personnel at the ski resort and at the hospital failed to diagnose his closed head injury quickly, and that the delayed treatment caused him further harm. . . .Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs claim that over several days at Hamot Medical Center, doctors encouraged them to sign a do-not-resuscitate order, even though they didn’t want to and they believed their son was improveing.
Wonder if they think the $5 million they are asking for will make them feel better about his death?
Rob Williams, the 29-year-old founder of British online music equipment retailer Dolphin Music died Sunday March 1, 2009 at Verbier after falling more than 60 feet off a cliff, according to a story in the Daily Mail.
[Williams] and Jason Tavaria, also 29, had become separated from friends while snowboarding in the resort of Verbier. . . . They were part of a group of London-based entrepreneurs attending a conference. . . . Mr Williams’s body was discovered by search teams late on Monday, shortly after they found his mobile phone. . . .Local police confirmed that he had fallen 66 feet onto a bed of rocks.
Williams was in Verbier with Michelle Dewberry, the winner of the BBC show The Apprentice.
When snowboarder Aline Christina Martins, 19, of Santa Barbara, California was found dead at Dodge Ridge on Monday February 16, 2009 it was originally thought that she suffocated. Now an autopsy reveals that it was actually hypothermia, according to a story on My Motherload.com.
Deputy Paul Tualla with the Sheriff’s Office says, “An autopsy was performed, and the cause of death has been determined to be hypothermia.” . . . Many of the facts surrounding her death still remain unknown. Martins’ was snowboarding at the resort with family and became separated from the group. At 4;30pm ski patrol began an extensive search and she was located at 5:30pm underneath a tree off one of the main routes. She did not have any noticeable signs of trauma.
With “urban snowboarding” on the up, something like this was bound to happen.
Cattaraugus County Sheriff Dennis John says the teen was snowboarding down Burt road heading toward Miller Hill road when he was struck by a car driven by 20- year-old Nathan Green of Friendship.
Adam O’Neill, 19, died from the injuries sustained in this crash. His mother spoke to reporters from WKBW. Click the link for the rest of the story. [Link: WIKB.com]
