Avalanche in Western Uinta Mountains, Utah

Avalanche December 30, 2008 · Western Uinta Mountains, Utah

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

A father and his three sons left the Bear River Service trailhead in the Western Uinta Mountains for a day of snowmobiling on the morning of December 30th. They eventually made their way to Yamaha Hill (which Utah riders call Avalanche Hill), where one of the sons triggered a large avalanche. He got carried by the avalanche and was killed.

The wider storm

An avalanche in the western Uinta Mountains caught and killed one snowmobiler.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 147850. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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