According to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, a male was found dead in a gully on Boulder’s Second Flatiron on May 14.
Officials were first made aware of a potential incident after receiving an Apple Crash Detection alert from an Apple device with the alert originating from Chautauqua Park in Boulder at about 11:30 a.m. Aside from the alert, no other information was available. No other calls were received from the area and after first responders contacted multiple hikers and climbers in the vicinity, there were still no reports of anything unusual.
It wasn’t until an off-duty member of the Rocky Mountain Rescue Group conducted a search while climbing in the area that a male’s body was discovered. The deceased adult male was found about halfway up the Second Flatiron in a gully. No rope or other climbing equipment was found at the scene, with the preliminary investigation pointing to the man solo scrambling up the formation at the time of his death…