Skier Gets 90-Day Sentence for Death

A judge in Eagle sentenced a 22-year-old California man to 90 days in jail for killing another skier on the slopes in a high-speed collision in 1997.

Nathan Hall was the first person to be tried on criminal charges for a skiing death. He could have received up to six years in prison.

But the judge took Hall’s age and his clean record into account.

“He’s still a young man and he’s done some immature and irresponsible things. But I believe there’s a good chance for him,” Judge David Lass said in pronouncing the sentence, which included 240 hours of community service over the next three years and random drug testing over the same period.

Hall, a ski lift operator in Vail, was found guilty in November of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Alan Cobb, 33.