One skier is dead and another was injured after an avalanche ripped down the side of a mountain at a California ski resort on Wednesday morning, officials said.

Masses of snow came rushing down the mountain at Palisades Tahoe in Olympic Valley, California, around 9:30 a.m., according to resort and response officials.

Sgt. David Smith, a spokesperson for the Placer County Sheriff’s Office, told reporters hours later a male guest visiting the resort died. 

The skier was later identified as 66-year-old Kenneth Kidd, a resident of both Point Reyes in the Bay Area and the Truckee, California, area north of Lake Tahoe, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Another person, who was also not local, sustained non-life-threatening injuries, Smith said.

“At this time all search efforts have concluded … there is nobody else up on the mountain,” Smith said.

The avalanche forced Palisades Tahoe to shut down both sides of the mountain for the day just 30 minutes after it opened as its rescue crews and local agencies scoured the area for victims.

The fatal snow slide occurred on the steep slopes under the KT-22 lift, which serves “Black Diamond” runs for skilled skiers and snowboarders. 

The trail had opened for the first day of the season on Wednesday after resort staff had been patrolling the area for avalanche conditions since Sunday, Palisades Tahoe officials said.

The avalanche debris field spanned about 150 feet wide, 450 feet long and 10 feet deep, the sheriff’s office said. The cause of the avalanche is under investigation.

“The entire Palisades Tahoe team, including all of the first responders, extend their deepest sympathies to the family and friends of those involved in the incident,” the resort said in a statement.

Palisades is on the western side of Lake Tahoe — about 40 miles from Reno, Nevada — and hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics.

Wind gusts topped 100 mph on the peaks around Lake Tahoe on Tuesday as a powerful storm moving in could dump as much as 2 feet of snow at high elevations by Thursday. 

The avalanche happened as a powerful storm was expected to dump as much as 2 feet of snow to the highest elevations by early Thursday.

As much as 2 inches of snow could come down per hour in areas around the popular ski destination on Wednesday, the National Weather Service in Reno said Wednesday.

A 110 mph gust was recorded Tuesday afternoon at the summit of Alpine Meadows, the neighboring sister resort of Palisades south of Truckee, California, the agency said.

Palisades Tahoe officials told reporters it is “absolutely” normal to open its trails in these conditions.

With Post wires