2013 Snowmobiling Archive Stories

The X Games will no longer feature snowmobile or Moto X best trick competitions. ESPN, which sanctions and televises the X Games, announced the cancellations on Tuesday. The X Games still plans to hold other snowmobile events at Winter X, along with motorcycle competitions at Summer X. In a statement, ESPN said it will focus on s

LEADVILLE — The Lake County coroner has identified a man from Illinois who was killed in a snowmobile accident Monday on Fremont Pass in central Colorado. According to the Summit Daily (http://tinyurl.com/a3trxuo ), Albert Drwal apparently died of injuries from an accident while snowm

An Idaho Springs man was killed Monday in a snowmobile accident in Grand County. Michael Ford, 43, was pronounced dead by the Grand County coroner. Read more here.

Memorable photojournalism is the result of great skill, a practiced eye, anticipation of the moment and, sometimes, luck. Gazette photographer Christian Murdock, covering the Winter X Games at Buttermilk Mountain in late January, had just staked out a spot to shoot the freestyle snowmobile event when Caleb Moore

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — The death of snowmobile rider Caleb Moore and another accident involving a driver-less snowmobile that careened into a fence and injured a spectator at the Winter X Games will trigger a more thorough review of the permit process for next year's event. On Thursday, Moore died from injuries suffered when he

DENVER — The 25-year-old innovative freestyle snowmobile rider Caleb Moore has died after being injured in a crash last week during the Winter X Games in Colorado. Family spokeswoman Chelsea Lawson says Moore died Thursday morning. He had been staying at a hospital in Grand Junction. Moore was attempting a backflip on Jan.

Life is slipping away from Texas snowmobiler Caleb Moore after a horrific crash Thursday night at Aspen's Winter X Games. Family of the 25-year-old athlete gathered Monday at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. "Caleb is not doing good at all," Caleb's grandfather Charles Moore told The Denver Post Monday afternoon. "The prognosis is

ASPEN — While Aspen doctors evaluated snowmobiler Caleb Moore late Thursday night for a concussion he suffered in an ugly freestyle accident at the X Games, the 25-year-old developed bleeding around his heart. The athlete from Texas was airlifted to Grand Junction's St. Mary's Hospital. "He underwent surgery this

GRAND JUNCTION — One man is dead after a single-vehicle snowmobiling accident on Grand Mesa. The unidentified 31-year-old man was with a large group of snowmobilers when the accident occurred north of Paonia on Monday. Delta County Sheriff Fred McKee tells the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel (