On Monday two men from Wisconsin were just identified as dying in a weekend avalanche that buried a skiing party atop an 11,000-foot mountain pass in Colorado..The bodies found were those of Jarrard Law, 34, of Portage, and Justin Lentz, 32, of Sun Prairie, they were retrieved from the mountain.The two men were skiing with five other people - two also from Wisconsin and three from Colorado - on Saturday the group triggered the snow slide while on the mountain. Three of the other skiers were hospitalized and two were uninjured.The two men killed were equipped with avalanche beacons, which is how they recovered their bodies. Also in Idaho Sunday a snowmobiler died in a snow slide on Galena Summit. This brought the number of people killed by avalanches in the United States to 15 this winter, all in western mountain states.Over the last 10 winters, an average of 28 people has died in avalanches every year in the United States, according to the avalanche information center.
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