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.

A backcountry skier was caught, buried and killed Tuesday in an avalanche near Red Mountain Pass in southern Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, officials said.

The accident marks Colorado's first reported avalanche fatality, per Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) data.

A backcountry skier died in an avalanche near Red Mountain Pass on Tuesday. That's according to the experts from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, who said the slide happened on Red Mountain Number 3.

Red Mountain Number 3” near Bollywood, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. The avalanche happened on the northwest-facing slope of the mountain at 11,300 feet in the San Juan Mountains,

The avalanche happened on Red Mountain Number 3 in an area locally known as Bollywood, east of Red Mountain Pass in Ouray County.