The 41-year-old woman was snowboarding with another person in Middle Fork Mineral Creek, known locally as “The Nose,” when she was caught and buried in the avalanche.

The agencies found that a Crested Butte woman was skiing in the area with a male partner and had been caught, carried and critically buried, resulting in her death. Her ski partne

SILVERTON, Colo. (AP) — A snowboarder was killed in an avalanche in the mountains of southwestern Colorado on Thursday, the fourth person to die in an avalanche in the U.S. West this week after a string of winter storms.