An avalanche swept up skiers at Lake Tahoe’s largest ski resort on Wednesday as a 150-foot-wide sheet of snow slid down a mountain slope into a pile 10 feet deep.

An avalanche swept up skiers at Lake Tahoe's largest ski resort on Jan. 10, 2024, as a 150-foot-wide sheet of snow slid down a mountain slope into a pile 10 feet deep. One person died in the ...

An avalanche struck Palisade Tahoe ski resort on Jan. 10, 2024, where one person died and three others were injured. Both people were guests at the resort and were from outside the area.

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“As anybody who has ever been caught in an avalanche might say, we thought that we were in the clear and so we decided that it was a go, and it clearly wasn’t,” he said.

Alaska State Troopers on Thursday released the identities of the three missing men caught in the slide: Dave Linder, 39, of Florida; Charles Eppard, 39, of Montana, and Jeremy Leif, 38, of Minnesota.

Two snowmobilers were caught in the slab avalanche, which buried and killed one of them, the center said. The other snowmobiler was partly buried and injured, the center said.