Nearly seven hours after reportedly chasing his motorboat into the water, the body of a 49-year-old man was pulled from Eleven Mile Reservoir tonight.
His name and hometown were not released, pending notification of next of kin.
Witnesses said the man’s boat drifted from a dock near the Lazy Boy Campground on the southern shore of the 3,400-acre reservoir about 2 p.m. and he went into the water to retrieve it, said Kevin Tobey, manager at Eleven Mile State Park.
The water in the lake at 8,600 feet in elevation was 63 degrees Sunday, enough to “zap a person’s motor skills pretty fast,” Tobey said.
There is a year-round swimming ban in the lake because of that, he said, and Sunday’s presumed drowning is the first in his 10 years as park manager. The park about seven miles south of Lake George is visited by 285,000 people annually, according to a Colorado State Parks fact sheet.
