Aspen Snowmobile and Professional Snowboarder Collision
Snowmass Village resident Justin Gordon, 29, was snowboarding with Doran Laybourn, 26, and another friend Sunday afternoon when he said they decided to ski past Little Annie's Woods, since it was getting tracked out, and to continue along the road in search of virgin powder. Gordon said he was less than 15 feet behind Laybourn when an unidentified man driving a snowmobile smacked into Laybourn. The man driving the snowmobile was driving up a road; Laybourn was riding down it. An eyewitness to the backcountry accident on Richmond Ridge said "The snowmobile was coming in pretty hot around this blind turn. Proper snowmobile etiquette is, like with a car, you generally stay on the right side of the road on turns just in case, God forbid, someone was coming down," Gordon said. "Doran tried to skid out of the way but he didn't have any time at all. The sled struck his right leg and
shattered both bones below his knee and then flipped him over and his face hit (the snowmobile driver's) helmet and broke his cheekbone, his nose and smashed his teeth. Doran was spitting out blood and teeth."
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