Adding to the already 19 deaths by avalanches during the 2012-13 winter season, five people were trapped and killed on Saturday.
A sixth snowboarder managed to escape the snow and go to get help.
Despite now being in the latter half of April, the slopes definitely don't look like it out in Colorado.

The eastern flank of an avalanche in Colorado that killed several people in April 2013.
That is due to the heavy snow that Colorado has seen for the start of spring, making it still feel like winter.
Gusting winds following the heavy, wet snow of these storms has risen the avalanche danger in the central Rockies, which is typically uncommon for this time of the year.
The last avalanche to cause this many deaths was back in 1962, when seven people were killed at Twin Lakes in January.
Comment: It's actually a sun halo; a sun dog is something like this.
So sun halos around the sun are appearing in Cuba now? Well that rules out the earlier 'explanation' that they were the result of ice crystals forming in cold environments such as the Arctic Circle.
In fact, they have appeared in the UK and Russia recently.
This is more evidence that the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere have rapidly cooled in recent years.