ASPEN - Aspen native and snowboarder Wallace Westfeldt liked spinners, bonks and card tricks, according to one of his sponsors' Web sites.
He enjoyed powder days, sunny days, park days, big air, small air, winning and New Zealand, according to another Web site.
But Friday morning, the 22-year-old died just outside his hometown after jumping off a cliff in an out-of-bounds area called Tonar Bowl beyond the
Aspen Highlands ski area, according to the
Pitkin County Sheriff and
Aspen Daily News.
The sheriff's office said it received a report of an unconscious skier at 11:34 a.m. But Westfeldt was on a snowboard, according to the Daily News.
"He was the most passionate snowboarder I've ever met in my entire life," John Lafferty, a local skier who attended high school and college with Westfeldt, told the
Daily News. "He was just such a funny, charismatic guy, and the most humble person."
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