Posted on 01/28/2008 3:21:39 PM PST by RDTF
(01-28) 12:52 PST LAKE TAHOE -- The president of a San Francisco green technology company was killed while skiing at the Homewood Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe, authorities said today.
Tyler A. Palmer, 37, was found unresponsive at the base of a tree about 1:52 p.m. Sunday, the Placer County Sheriff's Department said.
Skiers found Palmer on the Hobbit Land ski run, head-first in the well of a tree. Hobbit Land is a black diamond run, signifying it is for advanced skiers, according to the resort's Web site.
Medics tried to revive Palmer, without success, and he was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:28 p.m.
The Sheriff's Department said there was a light wind and snow was falling at the time of the incident. Palmer's death appears to have been an accident, authorities said.
Anyone who saw the accident is asked to contact the Sheriff's Department North Lake Tahoe dispatch center at (530) 581-6330.
Palmer was the founder and president of GreenMountain Engineering. According to the company Web site, the firm was established in 2003 in San Francisco. GreenMountain is a design engineering consultancy serving clean technology companies.
Before founding the firm, Palmer worked at Signature BioScience, a now-defunct biotechnology company in San Francisco, and at NASA, according to an online biography. He earned a master's degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado, the biography said.
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Ala Sonny Bono.
Wow! Just WOW! A greenie attacked and killed by a tree!
RIP.
Is the tree ok?
(sarc)
Ouch.
strange irony there
A real tree-hugger.
Mother Nature will get you every time.
I wonder if this gentleman was skiing "out of bounds"....
I wonder if this gentleman was skiing "out of bounds"....
I bet he drowned in the 24" of powder that fell this weekend. Sometimes if your skis don't fall off you can really struggle in this situation.
This is tragic, and very ironic, too.
(Cue theme song from “George of the Jungle.”)
This is a great tragedy - no joke.
Here is a man who worked hard to help companies do what they need and want to do to stay in business, but to do it with a minimal harmful footprint on the environment. There's nothing "liberal" about that, my Freeper FRiends - the man was in business, serving other businesses!
Not only that, but he died skiing, a sport I love, and at Homewood, just about the most beautiful resort in Tahoe - it sits RIGHT on Lake Tahoe, giving you a view of the amazing blue lake the whole way down.
RIP. And let's show thoughtfulness on this.
Mountain > Green
Trees are on the edges of the runs. Get outta control and you will kiss one easily.
I’ve done it. It hurts. Some trails are pretty narrow, also.
Now it’s the trees that are killing us.
I’ve been hunting deer and other game in the woods for many of my 58 years...never had a tree be so downright disrespectin’.
There aren't single trees, but as a larger grove sometimes, sure. And of course there's the sides of the run.
I'm guessing he wasn't wearing a helmet. Of course, depending on the speed he hit with, wearing one might have saved him, but still with brain injury.
I was just telling my daughter the dangers of tree wells while we were up sledding.
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