Second Death in a Week on New Hampshire’s Cannon Mountain

Franconia Notch, NH – Ski patrollers encountered their second fatal accident at New Hampshire’s Cannon Mountain ski area in a week on Sunday.nJoshua Vigeant, 31, of Pembroke, N.H., was snowboarding Cannon Mountain with a group of friends early Sunday afternoon when he was found dead on the lower Turnpike trail, which was closed on Sunday. He was not believed to have been wearing a helmet.

There were no witnesses to Vigeant’s accident. An investigation into the cause of death is ongoing.

A week earlier, a 19-year-old Massachusetts man was killed while skiing Cannon’s Zoomer liftline trail when he lost control and slid into rocks in a closed area.

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