With a backdrop of the Tenmile Range, Stephen Karp, an instructor with the Copper Mountain Ski and Ride School, makes his way down to the Timberline Express lift on a bluebird day at Copper Mountain, Colo., Thursday morning, Jan. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Summit Daily News, Mark Fox)
Summit County Coroner Joanne Richardson says the man was 58-year-old Odo Lessacher of Griffin, Ga.
Richardson says in a statement that the man was found in the trees at the intersection of two intermediate runs on North Peak.
Ski patrol responded to the scene and administered CPR at about 10 a.m., after a report from a bystander. Lessacher was declared dead by a Care Flight nurse.
Richardson says the cause of death was internal bleeding and blunt force trauma to the chest. She says Lessacher wasn't wearing a helmet.
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