Kirkwood tragedy shines spotlight on deadly mountain hazard
By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal
During the late afternoon hours of March 4 there was no reason to think Olga Perkovic and her son, Aaron, were in any danger.
Perkovic, 50, a lifelong skier, and Aaron, 10, a member of the Kirkwood JETS ski team, had just spent the day doing what they loved at Kirkwood Mountain Resort.
At 4:27pmthey loaded onto the TC Express chairlift to make one last run before skiing back to their condominium to join Olga’s mother, Radmila, 80, and daughter, Sophie, 8, to watch the Academy Awards.
They never arrived.