NEWRY — A 58-year-old Texas man died Monday after striking a tree at Sunday River Ski Resort, a family member said Tuesday.

Joseph Michalski, a Hewlett-Packard systems analyst from Fort Worth, was skiing on the Eureka trail when the accident occurred. Darcy Liberty, a spokeswoman for the resort, said the ski patrol received a report of the accident at 1:19 p.m. and responded immediately. Michalski was later taken by PACE Ambulance to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway.

Jodie Michalski, Joseph’s daughter, said Tuesday that her father went skiing with a group of friends every winter. She said the group had noted dangerous conditions on the trail before the accident.

“They’d actually really stopped and said, ‘These trails are really icy; we need to get off these trails,'” she said.

She said her father, a Massachusetts native, was a “really smart” man. “He was funny. He loved the Red Sox. He worked hard, took good care of his family.”

Eureka Trail, which is in the Oz area of the resort, is a black diamond trail for advanced skiers. It was open Monday but closed Tuesday along with 19 other trails listed as black diamond or double black diamond. Liberty said most of the closed trails are glades, in which skiers are allowed to go through wooded areas. Those trails need natural snow to remain open. She said Eureka Trail was groomed occasionally.

Lt. Walter Grzyb of the Maine State Police said fatal accidents are reported to the Medical Examiner’s Office, which investigates. He said state police were not called to the scene because Sunday River security had contacted the office, which determined that there were enough witnesses that a police investigation was unnecessary.

An autopsy was scheduled by the medical examiner, but a cause of death had not been determined by Tuesday.

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