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Up to 55 Injured Skiers and Snowboarders Arrive at Colorado Emergency Rooms Each Day, Analysis Shows


Jason Blevins, The Colorado Sun
More than 4,100 skiers and snowboarders were transported to emergency rooms in ambulances or helicopters across 2018, 2019 and the first part of 2020, which is about 10 patients every day of the season.
Chris Arnis was with his crew, carving spring snow on his home hill. It was a good Sunday for the lifelong skier.
 
It was a little shy of 4 p.m., March 15, 2015, when it happened. Arnis, a ski coach in Steamboat Springs, hit some deep ruts where a speed-controlling fence had just been pulled to prepare for snow grooming that evening. He lost a ski and flew face first into the flats on a run called Rainbow. ....

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Up to 55 injured skiers and snowboarders arrive at Colorado ERs each day


Up to 55 injured skiers and snowboarders arrive at Colorado ERs each day
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More than 4,100 transported across 2018, 2019 and the first part of 2020
Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020 5:14 PM
Jason Blevins/The Colorado Sun
Ski patrollers tend to an injured skier in Vail’s Game Creek Bowl on Dec. 11, 2020.
Up to 55 injured skiers and snowboarders arrive at Colorado ERs each day
Jason Blevins/The Colorado Sun
Ski patrollers tend to an injured skier in Vail’s Game Creek Bowl on Dec. 11, 2020.
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Chris Arnis was with his crew, carving spring snow on his home hill. It was a good Sunday for the lifelong skier. ....

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