This image provided by Colorado Avalanche Information Center shows an avalanche that killed an unidentified snowboarder near the town of Winter Park in Colorado, in this Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021, file photo. This has been an highly dangerous avalanche season, with 30 confirmed fatalities. It’s involved different recreational activities — snowboarding, skiing, snowmobiling, hiking — and includes various ages and experience levels. A warning from avalanche experts for anyone venturing into the backcountry: The threat of slides may only be growing worse. (Colorado Avalanche Information Center via AP, File)

By Shelly Bradbury | sbradbury@denverpost.com | The Denver Post

PUBLISHED: April 30, 2023 at 11:32 a.m. | UPDATED: April 30, 2023 at 11:36 a.m.

A skier was killed in an avalanche near Breckenridge Saturday, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.

The solo skier was caught, buried and killed in a “small but long-running” avalanche Saturday on Bald Mountain near Breckenridge, according to the center.

The avalanche happened at an elevation of about 13,000 feet, according to the avalanche center, which said it would publish more details about the incident after visiting the site on Sunday. The skier’s identity has not been publicly released.

The skier is the 11th person to be killed in avalanches in Colorado this ski season, according to the center. Another 16 people were caught in avalanches but survived.

The center on Sunday also published a video of a snowboarder on Mount Quandary who was caught in a similar avalanche on Saturday but was not buried and escaped uninjured.

“While most of these avalanches will be small in size and only several inches deep, in continuously steep terrain, a ride in one could produce a very bad outcome,” the post on Facebook warned.

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Shelly Bradbury | Courts Reporter

Shelly Bradbury is the courts reporter at the Denver Post. She joined the paper in 2019 and previously worked as a crime reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in Pennsylvania and the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee. She’s been a reporter since 2012, focused on criminal justice. In Pittsburgh, she helped the newspaper earn the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news after a mass shooting at a local synagogue, and in 2020 she was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting for an investigation into child sexual abuse among Amish and Mennonite communities.