Avalanche in Matanuska Valley, Alaska

Avalanche February 3, 2001 · Matanuska Valley, Alaska

Deaths

Injury

What the National Weather Service wrote

A group of snowmachiners Saturday triggered an avalanche on a slope south of Eureka, near the east fork of the Matanuska River. The avalanche killed two members of the group and slightly injured a third man, who was carried downslope and trapped beneath his snowmachine until he was freed.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5228507. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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