Whitefish, MT – A skier and a snowboarder died in separate incidents over the weekend at Whitefish Mountain Resort in Montana, the scene of another death earlier this month in a tree well.

Scott Allen Meyer, 29, of Kalispell, Mont., was snowboarding alone at Whitefish Mountain, formerly known as Big Mountain, on Saturday when he suffocated in a tree well near the top of T-Bar 2, east of Big Mountain’s summit. Meyer suffered the same fate in nearly the same location as happened in late December to a 16-year-old exchange student from Germany, who later succumbed to his injuries.

Meyer’s friends reported him missing at the end of the ski day, and he was found unresponsive by ski patrol around 7:30 p.m. Saturday evening. He was transported to Kalispell Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Also on Saturday, an unidentified 68-year-old man collapsed of natural causes on the intermediate Ed’s Run. He was pronounced dead after transport to North Valley Hospital in Whitefish. There were no obvious signs of trauma to the man, who is a season passholder. The victim’s name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.