By Reno Gazette-Journal

A Los Angeles-area woman died Saturday while snowboarding about 50 feet to 60 feet off the groomed trail on Mammoth Mountain, the Mono County Sheriff’s Department reported.

Erica Crystal Patterson, 43, of Hidden Hills, Calif., was not out of bounds but was by herself in a steep slope skiing among the trees when she fell face first and suffocated in the snow, said sheriff’s Lt. Rob Weber, the chief deputy coroner.

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