On Saturday morning, January 26, 2008, the body of the 60-year-old actor, a skiing enthusiast, was found after he and two other persons were reported missing the day before following a trio of avalanches which swept off-trail canyons in the San Gabriel mountains at the Mountain High ski resort, northeast of Los Angeles. The avalanches on Friday, which are freak occurrences, also killed Michael McKay, 23, an off-duty member of the resort's ski patrol, and Darin Bodie Coffey, 31.