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Skier dies at Sun Valley after hitting tree

Here's a news item from the Associated Press:  KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) — Officials with the Sun Valley Resort in central Idaho say a male skier has died after colliding with a tree. Resort spokesman Jack Sibbach tells the Idaho Mountain Express that the ski patrol responded to a report of an "unconscious and unresponsive" male skier on an intermediate ski run on Bald Mountain just after 11 a.m. Wednesday. The skier could not be revived and was pronounced dead by the Blaine County coroner at 11:19 a.m. Sibbach said the resort could not release the identity of the victim, who was in ski area boundaries. He says the resort management and staff extends their sympathies to the family. The death is still under investigation. A skier died in an avalanche on Bald Mountain in January 2010.



Betsy Z. Russell

Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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