The Colorado Sun: Silas Luckett doesn’t really remember the crash. The skiers behind him on the blue run at Breckenridge called ski patrol when they saw the 13-year-old skier veer into the trees at a high speed. When patrollers reached Silas, he was unconscious and breathing poorly.

The patrollers bundled him up in a sled behind a snowmobile and raced him down to the emergency clinic at the base of the ski area. There were nurses, technicians and two doctors waiting. 

They were moving swiftly. Even before Silas arrived, Dr. Paul Leccese asked the head nurse to call an ambulance to ferry the skier to the St. Anthony Summit Hospital in Frisco, knowing that a head injury will certainly require more imaging than the Level 5 trauma clinic at the base could provide. 

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