A Mt. Bachelor ski area guest using the zip line feature experienced a medical incident Thursday afternoon and died, Mt. Bachelor officials confirmed. 

The zip line remained closed Friday and reopened on Saturday, according to Mt. Bachelor.  

John Merriman, president and general manager at Mt. Bachelor, released the following statement Friday:

“Yesterday around 3:00 p.m., a guest at Mt. Bachelor experienced a medical incident on the zip line and was pronounced deceased by the medical examiner. Our entire team’s thoughts are with the guest and their family. We have closed the zip line today out of respect for our guest and his family, as well as our team at Mt. Bachelor. We look forward to resuming operations tomorrow, Saturday, August 26th.”

The self-braking ZipTour system drops nearly 1,400 vertical feet over three stages of varying lengths. In total, they add up to 1.3 miles, making the zipline the steepest, longest and fastest zipline in the Northwest, according to Mt. Bachelor.

It opened in 2020 after years in development plans.