Sad news involving snowboarders has become all too common. Kevin Pearce has been hospitalized for two-plus weeks with a severe brain injury and his close friend Danny Davis on Sunday suffered a serious but not life-threatening back injury.
Both halfpipe specialists had entertained realistic dreams of Olympic glory.
Now comes word out of Colorado that a recreational snowboarder from Huntington Beach, Calif., died Saturday after falling backwards into a creek in the San Juan County backcountry.
The Montrose Daily Press reports today that Mary Scott King, 50, somehow got her head and helmet lodged under a submerged rock after she fell. Her head had been underwater for at least eight minutes in what one law enforcement official described as a "freak accident." The likely cause of death is drowning.
-- Pete Thomas
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