Snowmobiler dies in western Wyoming avalanche

Jackson, Wyo • A 31-year-old Wyoming man is the first person to die in an avalanche in the United States during the winter of 2018-19.Officials with the Sublette County Sheriff's Office tell the Casper Star-Tribune that Dustin LaPlant of Rock Springs was trapped under his snowmobile Saturday morning after the slide in the Wyoming Range in west-central Wyoming. He had been snowmobiling with another personSublette County officials say the man who called 911 said the victim had been buried for