Like earthquakes across California fault lines, avalanches are relatively common in the mountain ranges of the state. On Wednesday, an avalanche hit Palisades Tahoe, a popular ski resort in the Sierra Nevada mountains, killing a man and injuring three other people. The flow of snow and rocks began above the GS gully area of KT-22, an expert-level lift. “Avalanches occur in every steep, snowy and mountain environment,” Steve Reynaud, a forecaster at the Sierra Avalanche Center told The Sacramento Bee. “We get a lot of avalanches in the Tahoe area.” According to Reynaud, the Tahoe area that the …