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7-Year-Old Dies in Tragic Skiing Accident

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Pictures from the Sugar Bowl ski team website show the fun at seven year old John Henderson of Davis should still be having.

John had been a member of the Sugar Bowl team -- two years already beginning at the age of five.

A love of the slopes runs in the family sources suitable confirmed to fox forty John's father helps coach the 500 plus members.

Of the Sugar Bowl ski team.

It's been a rough year for skiing though leaving the slopes sparsely covered with snow the condition they were in on Sunday.

-- appearance here thus far we haven't had ample snowfall so it was hard packed and I think you know the fall was.

The significant enough distance -- Bowl officials estimate the fall John -- was sixty plus feet.

Though he did have a helmets on.