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DURANGO — A skier died Sunday after apparently skiing off a headwall near a lift at Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort, sheriff’s officials said.
Two people riding the lift alerted resort officials after spotting ski tracks leading off a short cliff in the direction of a hole in the snow below, La Plata County sheriff’s spokesman Dan Bender said.
Ski patrol members arrived and found a man, described as a 19-year- old Durango resident, headfirst in the snow, Bender said.
The victim’s name was withheld until his family could be notified.
Bender said the accident happened in a closed part of the ski area.
