"Dream dies with Bode Miller’s brother, Chelone; N.H. snowboarder went at full throttle" by Bob Hohler | Globe Staff, May 28, 2013
EASTON, N.H. — He was 29, and so in love with pushing the frontiers of snowboarding — from soaring off lofty cliffs to blasting down icy mountains at more than 80 miles an hour — that it may have cost him his life.
Despite suffering a series of frightening seizures since his dirt bike crash, Chelone had spurned the medicine his doctors had prescribed to prevent the attacks, according to family and friends. He told them he never felt like himself on the drugs, that they sapped his energy, his power, his spirit....
Chelone Miller, known to many as “Chilly,” pioneered jumps from the Canadian Rockies to the South American Andes to the French Alps. Images of his aerial acrobatics are preserved in films such as Warren Miller’s “Higher Ground’’ and the Ski Channel’s “The Story.’’
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A mountain child, Chelone Miller, found dead of an apparent seizure in his mobile home — a van he had parked in a friend’s driveway in Mammoth Lakes, Calif.....
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Related: Snowfall mars holiday in Berkshires
A rare Memorial Day weekend snowfall left guests stranded at a Berkshire Mountains lodge. The Berkshire Eagle reported that Mount Greylock State Reservation reopened Monday morning after a weekend snowfall left slick roads leading to the summit. Peter Dudek, a manager at Bascom Lodge at the summit, said some hikers and staff sought refuge during the inclement weather. He estimated the snowfall to be a few inches, with snow drifts up to six inches. He says it was enough for people to be snowed in at the lodge. The National Weather Service said 7½ inches of snow also fell in parts of northern Vermont by early Sunday morning."
