Valley locals Lathrop Strang and Fletcher Yaw had just skied into the Laundry Chutes off the northeast facing summit of Mount Sopris on Friday when Strang hit some “weird snow,” slipped and then started tumbling.
“Yaw saw him fall,” said Mario Strobl, a patrol director with the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office who debriefed Yaw. “He said Strang was cartwheeling down the chute and then hit a rock and went over a cliff.”
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