Snowmass, CO – A 77 year old Michigan man died Wednesday of cardiac arrest after telling passers-by that another skier ran him off the trail.nThomas Berglund, 77, of Kalamazoo, told Snowmass Village resident Philip Shalen that he was run off the trail into deep snow by a “kid,” according to statements Shalen made to the Aspen Times newspaper. Shalen was snowshoeing up the Green Cabin trail on Wednesday when he encountered Berglund uninjured but unable to extricate himself from deep snow.

Snowmass Ski Patrol was contacted, and as patrollers helped the retired physician back into his skis and down the slope, Berglund went into cardiac arrest and later died at Aspen Valley Hospital.