Rescue workers in B.C. have found the body of a man who became the 11th person to die in an avalanche in Canada this winter.

Peter Bowle-Evans, 61, and two fellow skiers were in an out-of-bounds area near Golden, about five kilometres north of the Kicking Horse Ski Resort, on Wednesday when they triggered an avalanche.

Hugh Southee, 26, and Kyle Chartrand, 29, escaped the slide without injury.

Golden RCMP told CTV News that Bowle-Evans and Southee were both buried. Chartrand was not, and managed to dig Southee out.

"They located Bowle-Evans, they gave him CPR for at least half-an-hour, but he died at the scene," CTV Calgary's Kevin Rich reported from Golden.

"And then Southee and Chartrand hiked out, it took them almost 10 hours to get out of the area."

Police said the three men, all from Golden, were experienced in the back country, but added they should have been checking on conditions with the experts in the area.

"We're encouraging people to be very careful when they're out in the back country," Cpl. Barry Kennedy of the Golden RCMP told CTV News.

"We've had a lot of snow, there's been some rain, and it's making for the snow pack to be quite unstable, and as in this case when they stepped off the ridge to begin their descent, they started off the avalanche."

Kicking Horse Mountain Resort president Steve Paccagnan said his company had been checking on avalanche conditions a month before the season opened to pinpoint trouble zones. He said a certified avalanche team of 30 people continue to check in and around the boundary to make sure there are no avalanche conditions that could harm skiers.

"We work very closely with the Canadian Avalanche Society and they keep a tremendous set of records," Paccagnan told CTV News.

Bowle-Evans' death marks the seventh in British Columbia this winter. In Alberta, four people have died and at least 25 people have died in avalanches across Western North America this season.

Avalanche forecasters have warned those who risk skiing in the backcountry that conditions are extremely dangerous this year due to a weak layer of older snow buried under a deep layer of fresher snow.

In the wake of this latest avalanche, forecasters are warning the worst may be yet to come. The Canadian Avalanche Centre says the country could be on track for one of the worst slide seasons in recent history. February and March usually bring the worst conditions, and many people are out in the backcountry as spring approaches.

With a report from CTV Calgary's Kevin Rich in Golden, B.C.