ALBANY — A Rensselaer County high school graduate-turned-biotech executive was among nine people killed in California’s deadliest recorded avalanche last Tuesday.
Former Sand Lake area resident Kate Pettrone Morse, 45, resided in the San Francisco area when she embarked on a backcountry ski trip north of Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains. She was a married mother of three children.
Morse’s death from the Castle Peak avalanche was first reported by Tiburon, Calif.-based newspaper, The Ark. The names of the victims, including three guides, were announced by the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday. Six people survived…