The 2026 POWDER Photo Annual is here! Look for a print copy on a newsstand near you, or click here<\/a> to have a copy shipped directly to your front door.<\/p>\n Blue Knob Resort<\/p>\n State police were told that the child was alone on the chairlift and later flown to a children\u2019s hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, according to an affidavit of probable cause. The boy was uninjured. The parents said his helmet saved his life.<\/p>\n \u201cWe went through that process of finding them these helmets that were fitted to their heads, we did the wobble test, we have like the most industrial helmets,\u201d the boy\u2019s mother told WTAJ in March.<\/p>\n WTAJ reported that troopers said it took 15 minutes for ski area staff to find the boy\u2019s parents after the fall.<\/p>\n Photo: Indy Pass Media Kit/Blue Knob<\/p>\n According to WTAJ, resort management told troopers that the boy said he fell because he was trying to adjust his goggles<\/a>. They also told them that the boy\u2019s father said the boy was \u201cable to ride the lift by himself.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe lack of direct supervision of a five-year-old child led to this child falling 20 feet from a ski lift to snow-covered ground. Furthermore, it took approximately 15 minutes to locate the child\u2019s parents, who were unaware of the incident at the time,\u201d the affidavit concluded.<\/p>\n Related: Two Utah Ski Resorts Confirm Closing Date as End of Tough Season Nears<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally published by Powder<\/a> on Apr 22, 2026, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Powder as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Powder and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. The parents of a five-year-old boy who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77825,77824,52835,2661,28,30,29,63915],"class_list":["post-173455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-blue-knob","tag-blue-knob-ski-resort","tag-endangering-the-welfare-of-a-child","tag-felony-charges","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-wtaj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Blue](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/61a7342b5eb718a820033e2633225f97.jpeg\"\/)
Blue Knob’s trail map.<\/p>\n![\"Blue](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fc605371888d42be1a8e528e53d04d54.jpeg\"\/)
Blue Knob.<\/p>\n