Editorials

DENVER – A 25-year-old California man has died of head injuries sustained while snowboarding this week at Breckenridge Ski Resort. 

Witnesses said Seth Bender of Berkeley lost control and struck a tree along the intermediate Peerless run on Peak 9 on Wednesday, resort spokesman Jim Felton said. The man was not wearing a helmet. 

He was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon at Swedish Medical Center in Denver, where he was airlifted after the crash, hospital spokeswoman Ramonna Tooley said. 

It was the third death at a ski resort in Colorado this season.