The Colorado Avalanche Information Center is urging backcountry travelers to exercise extra caution across the Colorado mountains through the weekend as dangerous avalanche conditions persist.

Officials in Wyoming confirmed the death of a 36-year-old skier following an avalanche at a mountain pass over the weekend. The avalanche occurred on Saturday at Togwotee Pass in Teton County, which is northeast of Jackson. Local search and rescue crews were alerted about the tragic incident around noon involving a group of four individuals.

An experienced skier was killed by an avalanche in western Wyoming on Saturday after he was buried beneath a heavy landslide at the Togwotee Pass in the Teton Mountains, 20 miles east of Grand Teton National Park.