In a separate incident, four people caught in another avalanche escaped serious injury, Colorado officials say.

The victim was traveling on a terrain feature known as The Nose near Silverton, Colo., when the avalanche occurred on Thursday, officials said.

A backcountry snowboarder was killed in an avalanche Thursday near Ophir Pass north of Silverton. A 41-year-old woman from Crested Butte was snowboarding a line known locally as “The Nose” when she

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. Sarah Steinwand,