Second skier killed in snowboarding incident at Lake Tahoe resort | EUROtoday

A skier has died at a North Lake Tahoe resort, marking the second dying on the vacationer hotspot in simply 9 days.

Stuart McLaughlin, 53, was killed on February 15 in an accident on the Polaris path on the Northstar California Resort. The fashionable vacation vacation spot is positioned in Truckee, simply northeast of the lake.

The Placer County Sheriff’s Office mentioned that authorities first responded to stories of an accident on the Polaris path at 11.30 am. Upon arriving on the scene, they discovered that two skiers, one in all whom was McLaughlin, had collided on the path.

The different skier, who stays unnamed, was rushed to a neighborhood hospital. Their present standing additionally stays unknown.

As the investigations proceed, Tara Schoedinger, Northstar’s normal supervisor, provided her condolences to McLaughlin’s family members.

“We are deeply saddened by this tragic event, and the Northstar team extends our deepest condolences to the family, loved ones, and friends of the guests involved,” she said.

McLaughlin is the second person to die at the Northstar California Resort in just nine days, with 26-year-old Nicholas Kenworthy being killed on February 6, while attempting the ski destination’s Martis trail.

Authorities have not yet revealed Kenworthy’s cause of death.

The Martis trail is a Black-Diamond slope, the most challenging type of terrain at ski resorts in North America. The Polaris trail, where McLaughlin died, is also a Black-Diamond slope.

Both trails currently remain open, according to Northstar’s website.

His cause of death has not yet been given by authorities, although Schoedinger has also extended her condolences to his family.

“Northstar California Resort, Northstar Ski Patrol, and the entire Vail Resorts family extend our deepest sympathy and support to our guest’s family, loved ones, and friends,” she mentioned.

Elsewhere in Northern California, eight skiers had been discovered lifeless after being caught within the deadliest avalanche within the United States since 1981.

Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon confirmed that search and rescue groups had been dispatched on Tuesday after 15 skiers went lacking within the Castle Peak space through the avalanche.

Castle Peak is eighteen.5 miles northwest of the Northstar California Resort.

Six of the lacking skiers had been efficiently rescued on Tuesday night.

The our bodies of the eight deceased skiers had been discovered on the next day, Sheriff Moon confirmed within the press convention. That brings the full variety of skiers discovered to 14, with one individual remaining lacking.

Authorities say that the lacking skier is presumed lifeless.

An individual accustomed to the circumstances instructed the San Francisco Chronicle that almost all of the group caught within the avalanche had been ladies, together with the moms of kids on the native Sugar Bowl Resort’s ski crew.

The journey was a part of an annual household tour, which concerned the husbands and wives snowboarding individually.

The Independent has contacted the Northstar California Resort and the Placer County Sheriff’s Office for remark.