A group of moms on a ski trip is reportedly among the victims of an avalanche in California that is now one of the deadliest in the state’s history.On Tuesday, Feb. 17, around 11:30 a.m. local time, authorities received a 911 call about the avalanche in the Castle Peak area in the Tahoe National Forest, Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said at a news conference on Wednesday, Feb. 18.The group of 15 skiers, including 11 clients and four guides, was caught in the avalanche at the conclusion of a three-day backcountry skiing trip near Lake Tahoe, according to a statement from Blackbird Mountain Guides, which organized the trip.

Initially, reports stated that nine of the group members were missing while six people survived.Moon said on Wednesday that eight of the missing victims had been found dead. Seven of the victims were women. The remaining skier is presumed dead.Hours after Moon’s press conference, The San Francisco Chronicle reported, according to a source, that the deceased included a group of mothers whose children were on a ski team at nearby Sugar Bowl Resort.The moms’ trip was not connected with Sugar Bowl but rather “had historically been an annual excursion of families in which the husbands would go off skiing together and then the wives would take their turn,” according to the Chronicle.On Wednesday, Sugar Bowl Academy, a ski school affiliated with the resort, confirmed in its own statement that “multiple members of the Sugar Bowl Academy community and others with strong connections to Sugar Bowl, Donner Summit, and the backcountry community” were among those killed in the avalanche.More information about the victims was not shared by the academy, which cited family privacy.