3 days ago · Yesterday was a quieter day in the backcountry, with only one reported avalanche in the Salt Lake area mountains. A skier-triggered hard slab avalanche occurred on a north-facing slope at 10,400' in Days Fork. Dropping a large cornice triggered a wind slab, which then stepped down to a faceted weak layer near the ground, breaking 300' across ...

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Dec 26, 2024 · A man rescued his brother from a “large avalanche” he triggered while the pair were snowmobiling in Utah on Wednesday, authorities said.

May 10, 2024 · Two skiers were killed and a third was hospitalized following an avalanche on Utah's Lone Peak Thursday, according to the Unified Police Department of Salt Lake City.

Jan 29, 2025 · The bad news is that the expected heavy, dense snow, fluctuating temperatures, and strong winds will dramatically increase the avalanche danger. Stay tuned. Recent Avalanches

May 10, 2024 · SANDY, Utah (AP) — Search crews on Friday recovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who were swept away and buried by an avalanche in the mountains outside Salt Lake City a day earlier, officials said.

May 9, 2024 · Three men who had been skiing for hours through the backcountry near Lone Peak in Utah on Thursday were engulfed by a 500-foot wide avalanche that killed two of them, the authorities said.

May 10, 2024 · SANDY, Utah (AP) — Two backcountry skiers were killed and one was rescued after they were swept up and buried in an avalanche Thursday in the mountains outside of Salt Lake City that occurred after several days of spring snowstorms, authorities said.

May 10, 2024 · Search and Rescue volunteers on Friday recovered the bodies of the two skiers who died Thursday in an avalanche near Lone Peak.

May 10, 2024 · SANDY, Utah — Two backcountry skiers were killed and one was rescued after they were swept up and buried in an avalanche Thursday in the mountains outside of Salt Lake City that occurred after...