Grand County authorities have identified the 17-year-old Texas girl on an intermediate trail at Winter Park Resort.
Alicyn Mitcham, from Colmesneil, Texas, was pronounced dead at Denver Health East Grand ER after efforts to revive her failed, according to county Coroner Brenda Bock.
Bock said an autopsy on Alicyn, who lived in a small town outside of Houston near the Texas-Louisiana border, will be completed Thursday. According to Bock, Alicyn was not wearing a helmet.
The ski area says the crash happened at about 12:30 p.m. on Forget-Me-Not, a run in the resortap Parsenn Bowl.
“Ski Patrol responded immediately and transported the woman to the Denver Health East Grand ER at the base of the resort, where continued efforts to revive her proved unsuccessful,” Winter Park said in a news release.
No other skiers or snowboarders were involved in the crash.
“Winter Park Resort extends its deepest condolences to the woman’s family in the wake of this tragic accident,” the release said.
Alicyn’s death has elicited an outpouring on social media, with people posting about her on Facebook and Twitter.
“Everyone is posting so many pictures and sweet words about this wonderful girl,” one woman said on Facebook. “It just goes to show you how many lives she touch(ed) in 17 years. Her smile was so contagious and her heart was so true.”
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Alicyn is the — the third involving a tree — on Colorado’s slopes this season.
Three of those have been men who died at Breckenridge Ski Resort.
A who died after crashing into snow on Friday at Breckenridge Ski Resort suffered severe head trauma, according to the Summit County Coroner’s Office.
, a 48-year-old Longmont man, died from blunt force trauma after striking a tree at the resort in December. , a 47-year-old Denver man, died after striking a tree at Breckenridge in January.
, a 40-year-old mother from Texas, died Dec. 29 after she and her two young daughters fell from a chairlift at Ski Granby Ranch. While lift malfunction , the case .
