East Vail avalanches have a long history of killing skiers and snowboarders. Of the eight avalanche fatalities in East Vail since the late 1980s, including Tuesday’s, five of the deaths occurred in the first two weeks of January. Here are the seven previous deaths:

Jan. 8, 2008: 33-year-old Vail skier Matthew Gustafson was killed in a slide in East Vail’s King Tut slide path, just west of a path named Charlie’s Death Chutes.

Jan. 4, 2008: 27-year-old snowboarder Jesse Brigham was killed in an avalanche in Charlie’s Death Chutes.

March 4, 1996: 22-year-old skier Kevin Burke was killed when a cornice on which he was standing, atop East Vail’s Benchmark Bowl, collapsed.

Jan. 12, 1993: Two skiers were caught in an avalanche in East Vail, and one was killed.

Dec. 3, 1992: A skier was caught, buried and killed in an East Vail slide.

Jan. 2, 1990: Three skiers were caught in an East Vail slide. One skier died.

Feb. 26, 1986: A skier was killed in an East Vail avalanche.