“The Summit County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a skier at Keystone Resort. On March 11, 2025, at approximately 4:00 pm, special operations technicians with the Sheriff’s Office, who also serve as deputy coroners, responded to Keystone Resort following a report of a skier fatality. The preliminary investigation found that a male skier from the Front Range was descending the Haywood trail at a high speed when he lost control, veered off the trail, and collided with a padded light pole,” says the Summit County, Colorado Sheriff’s Office in a Facebook post.
It’s not clear what else there is to investigate here since they’ve already determined what happened to the poor bastard. The rest of the post even lays out that he was wearing a helmet and that there’s no evidence he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or if he was the victim of foul play. It’s a pretty open-and-shut case of Sonny Bono-ing via insufficient padding on a light pole.