Arapahoe teen-ager dies in Keystone ski accident
A 14-year-old girl from Arapahoe County died Sunday after she apparently skied into a tree at Keystone Resort.
The death was the state’s second skiing-related fatality of the season, an industry group said. Both deaths occurred at Keystone.
Jenny Moldavina was skiing with her family Sunday morning when she “lost control and hit a tree,” said Summit County Sheriff’s Sgt. Erik Bourgerie.
The accident happened about 11:35 a.m. on the Mozart run — an intermediate trail on the back side of Keystone Mountain, said resort spokeswoman Amy Kemp. The mountain had received 5 inches of snow the night before.
Ski patrol members took the girl to Keystone Medical Center, located at the base of the mountain, where she was pronounced dead at 12:48 p.m.
The cause of death was blood loss from internal bleeding, said Summit County Coroner Dave Joslin.
“It is just an extremely tragic accident,” Kemp said. “Right now we are doing what we can to take care of the family.”
Moldavina’s family on Sunday night declined to comment.
The first fatal accident of the ski season occurred Nov. 25, when a 24-year-old Illinois man hit a tree at Keystone and died.
Kemp said the safety of guests continues to be the resort’s main concern. The resort, she said, asks skiers and snowboarders to go beyond the safety mandates of the skier responsibility code.
Keystone, she said, encourages skiers and riders “to maintain a safe buffer zone between yourself and other objects, and yourself and other people; and to check your speed constantly.”
Two other deaths this season in Colorado were determined to have had medical causes unrelated to skiing, said Kristin Rust, spokeswoman for Colorado Ski Country USA.
A 56-year-old Colorado Springs man died Dec. 19, a week after he was injured while skiing at Keystone, but Rust was unable to say Sunday night how the man died. Also, an Indiana man died man died Dec. 11 after suffering an apparent heart attack while skiing at Vail.
There were 11 skiing-related fatalities during the 2000-2001 Colorado ski season.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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