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Avalanche in Wasatch Mountains I-80 North, Utah
Avalanche January 29, 2010 · Wasatch Mountains I-80 North, Utah
What the National Weather Service wrote
A man was snowmobiling with some friends on Grandview Peak, east of the city of Bountiful, when he and another man triggered an avalanche. The other man was able to outrun the avalanche on his snowmobile, but the victim was not, and he was buried under about 6 feet of snow. He was buried for approximately 15-18 minutes, before being completely dug out, and was flown to University Hospital in Salt Lake in extremely critical condition. He passed away two days later.
The wider storm
A snowmobiler was caught and killed in an avalanche on Grandview Peak, in the Session Mountains, east of Bountiful, Utah.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 210915. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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