Keystone, CO – A 27-year-old New Mexico man died on Friday after colliding with a tree while skiing at Colorado’s Keystone Resort.
Arthur M. Glaz, a First Lieutenant vehicle management flight commander with the 49th Logistics Readiness Squadron stationed at Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, N.M., was skiing on the intermediate run Porcupine in Keystone’s Outback terrain pod on Friday afternoon when he lost control and struck a tree. He was originally from Palos Hills, Ill.
Glaz was taken to St. Anthony Summit Medical Center in nearby Frisco, Colo., where he was pronounced dead. He was skiing with a helmet at the time, according to the Summit County Coroner’s Office.
Friday’s fatality was the second to occur at Keystone this winter. On Jan. 9, Doae Oh, a 20-year-old college student from Austin, Tex., struck a tree alongside the resort’s Frenchman run while night skiing on Dercum Mountain.