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JACKSON, Wyo. - A skier killed in an avalanche at a Wyoming resort grew up in the Greensboro area and graduated from Northwest Guilford High School.

David Nodine was skiing down an expert trail with a companion Saturday when the avalanche buried him under 8 feet of snow. The companion was not injured.

Ski patrollers found Nodine within six minutes but could not revive him. The 31-year-old was pronounced dead at a clinic at the resort base, according to the Jackson Hole News And Guide.

Nodine is the son of Doug and Cathy Nodine of Oak Ridge, N.C. He grew up in the Greensboro area and graduated from Northwest Guilford in 1995. He moved to Jackson Hole in 2005. (Read his obituary)

Friends and family on Sunday described Nodine as a joyous outdoorsman.

"David was everybody's friend," said wife Christine Nodine, 30. "He was so outgoing and so easy to be with, and his smile and laugh would just light up a room."

Derek Foy, a friend who grew up with Nodine and attended high school with him, said he was mourning the loss and was thinking of the victim's family, wife and friends.

"It's a shocking and sad loss," Foy said in a telephone interview Sunday from North Carolina. "He was a genuine, caring person who always had a smile on his face."

Foy said Nodine enjoyed skiing when he lived in North Carolina and would take a couple of trips out West each year before moving here.

Nodine worked for Bear Stearns in Boston for three years and worked for energy companies in Dallas before moving to Jackson Hole, according to his family.