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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.
Colorado Avalanche Information Center executive director Ethan Greene said "We are very much in a winter snowpack right now. The calendar may say it's April, but the snowpack looks more like February..."
That is due to the heavy snow that Colorado has seen for the start of spring, making it still feel like winter.
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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.
The only sure thing about weather forecasts is that they’re wildly different all over the planet. Test your knowledge on the wild ranges in temperature, precipitation and more.
