A 16-year-old skier who was at Palisades Tahoe for a contest Sunday died after colliding with one other teen.
The crash occurred round 2 p.m. Scott Lapp was on the Yellow Path at Palisades’ Alpine Meadows space after ending his run within the Tahoe Junior Freeride Collection occasion. He collided with a teen who was additionally on the ski space to take part within the competitors.
Lapp suffered deadly accidents. The opposite boy was taken to a hospital in Reno, Palisades Tahoe mentioned.
Lapp lived in Tahoe Metropolis and was a sophomore at North Tahoe Excessive Faculty, a press release from the Tahoe Truckee college district mentioned.
Lapp, who was on Palisades’ junior ski staff, had been competing Sunday within the division of 15- to 18-year-old male skiers. In freeriding, skiers and snowboarders are judged on fluidity, method and execution of maneuvers throughout a downhill run.
Correction: An earlier model of this text mentioned the teenager died “on the competitors.” Although he was on the ski space for the occasion, the deadly collision occurred after he completed competing.