A large winter storm pushed across California on Thursday as other parts of the West prepared for heavy snow and rain.

Murphy was one of two ski patrollers swept away by an avalanche on Lincoln Mountain in the resort while doing avalanche mitigation following a heavy snowstorm, the resort said. It was closed to the public at the time. The second patroller was uninjured by the 11:30 a.m. avalanche, the resort said. Murphy was hospitalized with serious injuries.

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On Feb. 8, a well-known outdoor guide was caught in an avalanche in Utah and was killed. In California, Mammoth Mountain confirmed Saturday in a social media post that a member of the ski patrol there died from injuries sustained in an avalanche that ...

A Mammoth Mountain ski patrol employee has died after sustaining serious injuries last week from an avalanche.