A police spokeswoman initially said they were responding to a land rescue incident "one ridge over from The Remarkables skifield".
Police were contacted at 1.43pm, she said.
The Remarkables ski area manager Ross Lawrence said that there had been an avalanche at the area known as the Scarpa Run, which was outside the skifield.
Ski-patrol staff searched the area and determined nobody had been caught in the avalanche.
Specialist avalanche rescue dogs also went over the site and found no evidence to suggest anyone was trapped.
A bus driver from The Remarkables spotted the 150m long, 95cm deep avalanche on the opposite side of the gully from the ski area access road, Mr Lawrence said.
As of yesterday afternoon, the New Zealand Avalanche Advisory said the Queenstown area was at level 3 - "considerable risk".
