One person is dead after a Saturday evening avalanche in northern Colorado’s Rocky Mountains near Berthoud Pass in Grand County, sheriff’s officials said.

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Few details were immediately available but a sheriff's office spokesperson said the avalanche was triggered around 4:45 p.m. in the "Fingers Area" on Berthoud Pass near Winter Park.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - One person is dead after another avalanche occurred on Saturday. The Grand County Sheriff’s Office got a report of a skier-triggered avalanche in “the Fingers” or High Trail Cliffs of Berthoud Pass at 4:45 p.m. Saturday. According to officials, the avalanche did result in one death.

One person was killed Saturday when a skier triggered an avalanche in Colorado, the Grand County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

In a separate incident, four people caught in another avalanche escaped serious injury, Colorado officials say.

GRAND COUNTY, Colo. — One person was killed in an avalanche in Grand County Saturday. The Grand County Sheriff's Office said at around 4:45 p.m. Saturday, dispatchers received a report of a skier-triggered avalanche in the Fingers area on Berthoud Pass.

A backcountry snowboarder was caught, buried and killed in an avalanche Saturday, Feb. 22, on Mines Peak east of Berthoud Pass, according to a preliminary report from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.