Overview

• Police said Copeland was guiding AVA Rafting and Zipline customers on the Mount Blue Sky Via Ferrata when she fell during a rappelling segment.
• Emergency responders, including a Flight for Life helicopter, were dispatched to AVA’s site on Highway 103 shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday, but she did not survive.
• Authorities identified Copeland as a 26-year-old Fort Collins resident and employee of AVA who grew up in Olathe and graduated from Kansas State University.
• The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s Division of Oil and Public Safety and OSHA have been notified, and the cause of the fall remains under investigation.
• Her family issued a statement expressing shock, requesting privacy, and noting the earlier death of her father, former Olathe Mayor Michael Copeland.