Annnnnddddd…..another death. Now 3 in 4 days. This is getting old….
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The Wasatch Thread: Skiing and Riding in Utah
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Annnnnddddd…..another death. Now 3 in 4 days. This is getting old….
Death is always a tragedy but its really Darwinism in effect for any adult who goes into the backcountry anywhere remotely near avy terrain right now…
Update: BOTH men SURVIVED the avalanche. Authorities corrected the earlier report.
BenedictGomez
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It didnt open today. I was told it's close though.
BenedictGomez
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I had a scare myself today. I was just by the marked cliff area on 9990 looking down picking my line, pretty technical area, the last thing I remember is thinking I'll go down about 6 feet and then do a jump turn, and everything under my feet just was gone. Sliding a high speed on my back, way too steep terrain to arrest, and it felt like my velocity was just picking up, basically yelling S**T, S**T, S**T, praying I dont hit any rocks or unluckily one of the very few trees scattered in the area.
One of my new skis will likely remain there until spring, as God only knows how much snow is covering it or where on that slide path it is! The other ski amusingly was found launched at a tree, almost like it was placed there. On the way to Cottonwood Heights tomorrow for pair #3 this season (1 stolen, 1 lost on 9990).
Be safe out there unstill everything stabilizes.
One of my new skis will likely remain there until spring, as God only knows how much snow is covering it or where on that slide path it is! The other ski amusingly was found launched at a tree, almost like it was placed there. On the way to Cottonwood Heights tomorrow for pair #3 this season (1 stolen, 1 lost on 9990).
Be safe out there unstill everything stabilizes.
Smellytele
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How long did it take you to make it back down without skis?
BenedictGomez
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Yeah, so post holing that's not fun. Luckily very close to where I ended sliding there's a catwalk that was compressed. From there I was maybe a few hundred yards from where Park City terminates its snowmobile tours that run near the top of the mountain, so I was able to get someplace where Ski Patrol could snowmobile me back to Red Pine Lodge sans one ski.
kingslug
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9990 has been some of the the best skiing I've done all season.
We did watch some morons ski right under Dutch draw..
So yeah..there will be more death out there.
I don't get it...but I don't have to...
We did watch some morons ski right under Dutch draw..
So yeah..there will be more death out there.
I don't get it...but I don't have to...
I wouldn’t have left until i found it
BenedictGomez
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It was way too steep to climb back up to that area, and the snow was probably 3.5 feet deep, so it just wasnt possible.I wouldn’t have left until i found it
A ski patroller put on skins so he could get up the first 1/3 to look, but he couldn't find it.
You shouldve taken a picture or got a pin on the map, I would look for it for you hahah
Wow. That sucks. No powder cords I take it?
Been there. Done that. I was at Alta with Snowmonster on a powder day in my first or second season out here. We did a spin down the Erosion Gullies on Supreme and my powder twin dips dove down and I released. Found one ski, the other one took like 20 minutes to find. I bought powder cords after that experience.I wouldn’t have left until i found it
Good luck BG, needing 3 pairs in one season is not great. I don’t have a lost ski story, I have a not-lost one. Had one of our vehicles parked down on rt 242, hiked to Big Jay, and we already decided to ski even further than the Jeep was parked and one of us would thumb back…I was in the lead, got too far ahead of my friend that he was out of my sight so I come to a stop. A few seconds later I watched a solo ski flying by in the semi covered stream bed so I unclip and start hiking back up hill to where my friend had fallen (out of sight and out of hearing ability even for a whistle). So I finally climb far enough to where I could see him searching and told him it wasn’t even within 100 yards of where he was. That would have been one long trek with one ski in deep snow.
BenedictGomez
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I do have both, I'll post later. I'd appreciate it if you could turn your head left when you sky by there on the cat track the next few months. LOL
Realistically I'm thinking an early June long hike.
I thought that was like a 1980s ski movie thing. I guess it's not a terrible idea in retrospective.
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jimk
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I took a run yesterday 22 Feb 2026 in the tiger tail area of Snowbird, when I got to exit gully just above Baby Thunder a good skier blew past me, but crashed. He lost a ski. I was about 20 yards above him so I went down to help and found it by poking my pole in 3 feet of snow. Ski was submerged at least a foot. Skier was still about 20 feet below me and had removed his other ski to laboriously search in 3 feet of snow. He was grateful when I pushed the ski to him. I told him the five minutes I helped gave me a chance to rest and suck wind as the conditions were demanding for a geezer 
It was about a quarter mile downhill from here:
It was about a quarter mile downhill from here: