Snowmobiler dies after avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada

TRUCKEE, Calif. -- An avalanche successful California's Sierra Nevada connected Monday buried a snowmobiler successful snowfall and killed him, authorities said.

Rescuers responded aft a 911 telephone astir 2:20 p.m. reported a imaginable avalanche adjacent Johnson Peak and Castle Peak successful Truckee.

The snowmobiler was initially reported missing but past was recovered nether the snowfall respective minutes later, the Nevada County Sheriff's Office said successful a statement.

Fellow recreationists recovered him but helium didn't past contempt lifesaving efforts, according to the statement.

Emergency unit were moving to safely extract the unfortunate precocious Monday and to corroborate nary others were buried.

The sheriff's bureau said much avalanches could hap and recommended that radical debar the area.

Each winter, 25 to 30 radical dice successful avalanches successful the U.S., according to the National Avalanche Center. The center's existent representation shows precocious hazard spots successful Utah and Washington and areas of sizeable hazard successful California, Colorado, Idaho and Wyoming.