{"id":2442176,"date":"2019-03-26T18:48:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T00:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/joseph-bottiglieri-idd-as-man-who-fell-in-highland-bowl-died-a-day-later\/"},"modified":"2019-03-28T08:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:53:39","slug":"joseph-bottiglieri-idd-as-man-who-fell-in-highland-bowl-died-a-day-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/joseph-bottiglieri-idd-as-man-who-fell-in-highland-bowl-died-a-day-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Bottiglieri ID\u2019d as man who fell in Highland Bowl, died a day later"},"content":{"rendered":"
Joseph Bottiglieri, left, and his family.<\/strong>
Courtesy Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 57-year-old man who fell Thursday in Highland Bowl died the next day but wasn\u2019t officially identified as a Washington, D.C., lawyer and father of two until Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Pitkin County Coroner\u2019s Office said Joseph Bottiglieri of Rockville, Maryland, \u201csuccumbed to his injuries\u201d Friday, though the cause of death was still pending further investigation, according to a news release sent out late Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The man\u2019s son said Tuesday he died of \u201ccatastrophic brain damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The delay in the release of the name had to do with the availability of Bottiglieri\u2019s medical records as well as procedures involved in organ donation, Deputy Coroner Audra Keith said.<\/p>\n

Bottiglieri fell near the top of the Y2 run on Highland Bowl at Aspen Highlands and slid to the bottom of the run, according to an Aspen Skiing Co. spokesman. He was unresponsive initially, though responders performed life-saving measures and were able to establish a pulse.<\/p>\n

Bottiglieri was helicoptered from mid-mountain at Highlands and flown to St. Mary\u2019s Hospital in Grand Junction on Thursday afternoon. A day later, doctors told the family he was brain dead, Matthew Bottiglieri, his son, said in a phone interview Tuesday. He had been wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was the best,\u201d Matthew Bottiglieri, 20, said. \u201cHe was so genuine. He gave the best advice. I was always so proud of him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you think about meeting a good person, that\u2019s him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bottiglieri said he was with his mother in Snowmass Village at the time of his father\u2019s accident, but his twin brother, Nicholas, was with his father atop Highland Bowl. As he stood on his skis just before he headed down the Bowl, his father looked at the mountains surrounding him, turned to his brother and spoke his last words.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said something along the lines of, \u2018Wow, I feel so close to God right now,\u2019\u201d Bottiglieri said. \u201cThen he took two turns, slipped on the ice and tumbled to the bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n

A man standing next to his brother said he\u2019d ski down to his father and told him to go get ski patrol, Bottiglieri said. He and his mother were soon notified and his hotel gave the family a ride to the hospital in Grand Junction. It was the family\u2019s first trip to Aspen.<\/p>\n

He said his father was an avid skier, runner and triathlete who especially loved cycling.<\/p>\n

\u201cExercise was a huge part of his life,\u201d Bottiglieri said. \u201cHe also loved the Washington Nationals and Pittsburgh Steelers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mainly, though, his father was a family man, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe always put his family first,\u201d he said. \u201cThat was his No. 1 thing. He did everything he could for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tracy Bottigleri, Joseph\u2019s wife, agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was so proud of his family,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was a loving man. He loved big.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joseph Bottiglieri was a partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm and specialized in product liability and other areas of commercial litigation, according to an obituary posted Sunday on the firm\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

jauslander@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joseph Bottiglieri, left, and his family.Courtesy Photo The 57-year-old man who fell Thursday in Highland Bowl died the next day but wasn\u2019t officially identified as a Washington, D.C., lawyer and father of two until Tuesday afternoon. The Pitkin County Coroner\u2019s Office said Joseph Bottiglieri of Rockville, Maryland, \u201csuccumbed to his injuries\u201d Friday, though the cause […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 19:23:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}