1 skier killed, 2 injured in Colorado avalanche

A man and two other skiers died after they were caught in an avalanche in Colorado on Friday, the Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office said. said in a statement on Sunday.

The body of Joel Shute, 36, of Glenwood Springs, was recovered Saturday afternoon, authorities said.

An avalanche that tumbled 2,400 feet down the side of the mountain swept Schutt, another skier and a snowboarder into Upper Rapid Creek southwest of the town of Marble on Friday, officials said.

The avalanche was two to three feet deep and up to 500 feet wide. Colorado Avalanche Information Center.

According to the International Emergency Response Coordination Center, first responders were notified of the avalanche at 5:52 p.m. Friday.

By Saturday, rescue workers had transported two people who were injured in the incident — the skier by helicopter and the snowboarder by ambulance after he was able to get out of the slide area — for medical treatment, the sheriff’s office said. gone, the sheriff’s office said.

Search and rescue teams were then buried about four feet deep in avalanche debris in the shoot, officials said.

Shutt is the eighth person to die in an avalanche in Colorado this season. CBS News Colorado Reported

On Thursday, skiers dropped two “very large” avalanches in the area near Marble after 15 inches of cold storm snow covered 10 inches of very dense snow that fell during the day on Wednesday. CAIC Report. No one was caught in these slides.