Snowboarder on Mount Hood dies with head injury
By The Associated Press
PORTLAND — A Washington state man has died on Mount Hood after a snowboarding accident.
Authorities said 23-year-old Kyle Cryblskey of Vancouver, Wash., died after crashing Saturday evening on a jump at Mount Hood Meadows.
Dave Tragethon, a spokesman for the ski resort, said Cryblskey was snowboarding in the Rose City terrain park at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday when he went off a jump made out of snow and landed badly.
The fenced terrain park is considered an intermediate to advanced area of the resort.
Cryblskey was not wearing a helmet.
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