A kayaker died on the Eagle River on Saturday after the craft overturned in the fast, swollen river.
At 2:30 p.m., police received a call about a kayaker who flipped near the Eagle County Fairgrounds, according to a news release from the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office.
The kayaker, who was on a private river trip, was pulled from the river about 1 mile downstream. The kayaker was wearing a life preserver and helmet, police said.
The kayaker’s name had not been released.
Vail Mountain Rescue, the Greater Eagle Fire Protection District, the Gypsum Fire Protection District, the Western Eagle County Ambulance District and the Sheriff’s Office assisted on the call.
Officials continue to urge everyone to use caution in and around waterways in the area, as rivers and streams are running high and fast.
There have been at least four fatal accidents on Colorado rivers in June.
On Thursday, a Kansas man was killed when four people were thrown into the fast-flowing Cache La Poudre River west of Fort Collins during a commercial rafting trip.
Winter’s heavy snowpack — three to four times its normal depth in some parts of northwestern Colorado — has been slow to melt until recently because of cool spells in the high country. That could mean a prolonged period of whitewater.
