DENVER (KDVR) — An experienced backcountry skier never called his wife after spending a day on Red Mountain Pass, and after she went looking for him, she found him buried in a deadly avalanche ...

was killed on Jan. 7 in an area off Red Mountain Pass known as “Bollywood,” the Ouray County Plaindealer reported. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) wrote in a report that the ...

A skier was killed in an avalanche on January 7, 2025 on Red Mountain Pass in Colorado. Following the accident, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) has released a full investigation and ...

A report published on Wednesday, Jan. 15, from the Colorado Avalanche Information ... and went to check" on him on Red Mountain Number 3 near Red Mountain Pass, according to CAIC.

Along with the rescue transceiver, he was also wearing an avalanche airbag backpack, but it did not deploy, CAIC said. “He had skied on Red Mountain Pass for 16 years and knew the terrain on Red ...

She then drove to Red Mountain Pass and snowshoed to the slope where the avalanche took place. The woman located her husband’s body using a transceiver and avalanche probe, digging his remains ...

On Jan. 7, 57-year-old Donald Moden Jr. hit the slopes for a solo ski trip on Red Mountain Pass in Colorado. According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) social media statement ...

A Colorado wife has been left devastated after she found her husband's dead body in the snow following a freak avalanche. Donald Moden Jr., 57, was backcountry skiing near Red Mountain Pass on ...

The slide occurred in an area known locally as Bollywood in the Red Number 3 zone on Red Mountain Pass in Colorado's ... a hard wind slab causing an avalanche. The avalanche crown was between ...

"The avalanche was about 800-feet wide ... "it was not deployed," according to the CAIC. "He had skied on Red Mountain Pass for 16 years and knew the terrain on Red Number 3 well," CAIC added.