Helmet video captures Colorado college students rescuing dog buried in avalanche

A pair of college students were backcountry skiing when they witnessed an avalanche, and they ended up rescuing a buried dog.

Bobby White and Josh Trujillo were backcountry skiing the popular Berthoud Pass area in Colorado when they saw a cloud of snow erupt -- a sign of an avalanche occurring -- at least a thousand feet away.

While White rushed to put his splitboard back together, Trujillo was able to immediately ski over to the avalanche debris where he encountered another group, the two students at Colorado School of Mines told ABC News in a phone interview.

Every person was accounted for, but a dog had been caught and buried in a debris field Trujillo described as 300 yards long and 50 yards wide.

According to a preliminary report of the Dec. 26 events written by the dog's owner and sent to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, his group had accidentally veered off course and stopped just above steeper terrain susceptible to avalanches. The dog, named Apollo, according to Trujillo, ran away from the owner above a steep, rocky slope, triggered the avalanche and was swept over the cliff and through several trees before disappearing into the sea of snow.