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DATE: Thursday, February 8, 1996             TAG: 9602080021
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: B-4  EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: CHARLOTTESVILLE
SOURCE: Associated Press 

SKIER FROM N.C. DIES AFTER ACCIDENT AT WINTERGREEN

A Raleigh, N.C., man who ran into a tree while skiing at the Wintergreen resort has died at University of Virginia Medical Center.

A hospital spokesman said Rutger Stalenhoef, 25, died of his injuries at 10:25 a.m. Monday in the intensive care unit.

He had been flown by helicopter from the Nelson County ski resort to the Charlottesville hospital shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday, said Wintergreen spokesman Mark Glickman.

Glickman said Stalenhoef was skiing with a friend on an expert run when he veered off a trail and struck a tree. Glickman did not know whether Stalenhoef was an expert skier.

``Nationally, it's one of those things that statistically only happens once every million skiers,'' Glickman said of the fatality.

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KEYWORDS: FATALITY