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Boarder killed in Summit County avalanche identified

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Created on Thursday, 17 June 2010 20:34

Written by Nathan

By KIERAN NICHOLSON, The Denver Post

A young man who died in an avalanche while snowboarding in Colorado back country has been identified.

Daniel Michelotti, 20, of Spring Grove, Ill., died Wednesday in an avalanche about a mile west of the Arapahoe County Ski Area, according to a media release from the Summit County Coroner's Office.

Michelotti worked for the Breckenridge Ski Resort and had lived in Colorado since November.

The cause of Michelotti's death was suffocation, the coroner's office said.