We saw a horrendous accident yesterday. We were riding up the Sublette Quad when we heard a loud crash and looked down at Laramie Bowl. We saw two bodies sliding down the mountain for a hundred, maybe two hundred feet. The smaller body was totally limp and her ski equipment was spread out all over the trail. A man skied up to her, screaming obscenities at the snowboarder who came to a stop about 10 yards below the limp body. The man yelled for someone to get the ski patrol and began performing CPR. The snowboarder stood up and then sat back down.
When we got off the lift at the top, Mimi told us she had seen the whole thing. She heard someone going real fast and looked over and saw a snowboarder straightlining the groomed half of the bowl. He was going about 40 or 50 miles per hour when he hit the skier broadside without making any attempts to avoid her. She was just slowly skiing along when he collided with her from above and behind. His snowboard broke in half with the impact and her pole was bent around his body in a U-shape. Alexa was pretty upset by the idea that a fun family vacation could be destroyed by such a terrible accident, and I didn't feel much like skiing anymore either, so we went in early. The rest of the crew came in soon after.
Mimi went to the clinic where the sheriff took her statement as a witness. Mimi said the atmosphere was grim and that some of the ski patrollers were crying. We hoped for the best, but feared the worst because the crash was just so awful. Today we learned that the woman died. She was a 29 year old skiing with her husband. The snowboarder was a 16 year old boy.
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