EagleCounty sheriff's officials said the man and another snowboarder likely triggered the slide after a friend on a snowmobile dropped them off at the top of Avalanche Bowl.
The EagleCounty evaluations are used to give a teacher not only a score but also specific feedback on areas to improve and ways to build on their strengths.
We could see why Mary Ann is a master teacher, a distinction given to the school's best teachers and an important component of a teacher-evaluation system in EagleCounty.
Over the course of a school year, each of Eagle County's 470 teachers is evaluated three times and is observed in class at least nine times by master teachers, their principal and peers called mentor teachers.
The program faces challenges from tightening budgets, but EagleCounty so far has been able to keep its evaluation and support system intact likely one reason why student test scores have improved in EagleCounty over the past five years.
The big balance in the Rainy Day Fund might also be tapped to help counties in the Eagle Ford and elsewhere in the state to fund the repair and improvement of county roads that are being impacted by the high volume of heavy truck traffic that comes along with rapid oil and gas development.