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Another skier dies at keystone

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Valind
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2/19 12:25 pm Summit County: At Keystone Ski Resort a fatal 12 y/o skier versus tree, L/G 2 flight nurse just pronounced the patient onscene.

It seems like more and more people are loosing there life on the ski hills these days.  Seems like everytime i turn around, someone is getting killed somewhere in the country skiing.  Kinda scarey.  I am not too sure yet on what happen with this one, just came over the scanner a bit ago.  I bet it will be on the news once they find out about it.  RIP little dude.

Feb 19 2008 3:53PM
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ONT_rider
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RIP little shredder.
Feb 20 2008 1:18AM
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yellav
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holy shit this kid was from my hometown i played lacrosse with his older brother for two years what the fuck
Feb 20 2008 6:06PM
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lotsoffun
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dude, thats scary. Rip too all those kids
Feb 20 2008 6:30PM
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BIG_SALTY
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that sucks to hear always makes you fell super bad
Feb 20 2008 7:19PM
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leone
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yea man, can't believe that's joyce's little bro
Feb 21 2008 12:12AM
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zesty_buddy
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RIP dude. ++ vibes
Feb 21 2008 1:02AM
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RightCoastRiderK2
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RIP ++++vibes to his family. actually knew the kids older brother from middle school. so shitty to keep hearing stories like this.

Feb 21 2008 7:45PM
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kbrando
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wow i just got home from utah and saw this and i was devistated. this family is from my town and the kid has a brother in my grade. what a sad sorry and it is such a great family. RIP and good vibes to the family i feel so bad for them
Feb 21 2008 10:22PM
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Abes2009
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that kid was my friends brother. RIP. prayers sent to all his friends and family
Feb 21 2008 10:28PM
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Abes2009
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some guy had a heart attack at killington last week. they shut down the lifts and everything at bear
Feb 21 2008 10:30PM
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Roy
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RIP to the lil dude

And yea you deffinately gotta ask that. Like today I was instructing and had a big group (10 to one of me)  of inexperinced skiers, we're talking super sketchy just learning to parallel inbetween turns, still mostly snowplowing, super in the back seat too, and every once and awhile one or two would break away at higher speeds and fly into a bush trail. This happends all the time at my hill, and trust me from what I've seen is kids inches away from serious injury or death, lucky the worst we've had in that kind of situation is a broken leg. I think I'll have that alot more one my mind now after hearing that.
Feb 22 2008 1:35AM
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acc
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Obviously this kid was pretty young so who knows his level, but for most of these deaths that don't involve avalanches, I wonder what the average skill level is?  Like is this a lot of intermediate/beginner skiers that are hitting trees and hitting jumps they shouldn't be?
Feb 22 2008 11:27AM
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I-Ski-AK
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r.i.p. little man.
Feb 22 2008 11:32AM
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BkCountrySkrMO2
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yea that kids lives in my town
he's from CT
had a helmet and everything but went out of control into a tree
R.I.P
Feb 22 2008 11:54AM
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skithebert
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i don't know this for certain, but it seems like more people die from smashing into trees than they do in the park.  its sad, but this is really nothing new hearing about this.  Keystone seems to have the highest amount of deaths for whatever reason and the majority are people hitting trees.  I'd say probably around 7 per year that I hear about.  Could be wrong though.
Feb 22 2008 12:05PM
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Valind
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He died from chest injuries, he had a helmet on. 

thats what the report from the cornor said.  "died from chest injuries"  not head.
Feb 22 2008 12:09PM
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skiblandford
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some of you may think im lying but that kid goes to my school he was acutally pretty cool i went to this thing at my school last night so everybody could mourn his loss it was so sad i felt so bad for his parents and hes the youngest of 4 kids
some dude cut him off and he went flying down the side of the trail and hit a tree in the chest and suffered cardiac aresset.
so ill say what i did last night
                               rest in peace bro
Feb 22 2008 12:13PM
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BkCountrySkrMO2
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yea  the familys not taking it too well
Feb 23 2008 6:55PM
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RobotTom
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I hate this.  I hate this kind of stuff so much.  Why do I feel like so many people have died this season?
Feb 23 2008 7:55PM
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keystoner1
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we were talking to a a bunch of lifties at keystone and they said his instructor took him there and his skill wasn't at that ability. WTF?

Feb 23 2008 7:58PM
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currentwestman
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yeah this kid was from my town. glastonbury, ct. so sad
Feb 23 2008 8:03PM
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currentwestman
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i meant this kid. why is everyone hitting trees this year?

Feb 23 2008 8:25PM
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Valind
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Sad thing.  Just sad.  I cant imagine what they are going through.
Feb 23 2008 11:19PM
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Peach.
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so sad so young he had his whole life ahead of him
Feb 24 2008 2:47AM
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miroz
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This kid was from my town, Glastonbury, CT.  He was in 8th grade, a year older than my little brother.  He was skiing with his family and friends.  I was pretty sure I found this on here, and I'm going to take this link to his family and friends, to show that he won't be forgotten.  Thanks for your support guys...I really mean it.
Feb 24 2008 7:05PM
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skiblandford
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hometown = Glastonbury CT
Feb 24 2008 7:58PM
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kbrando
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they had the funeral today and like 1500 people showed up and it was just a tribute to how great of a kid he was and how bad this loss really is. RIP
Feb 26 2008 8:01PM
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