With a high avalanche threat, Big and Little Cottonwood canyons are expected to remain closed to traffic until Thursday morning at the earliest.
after a large amount of wet snow fell on top of an unstable base. That increased the likelihood of a slide in areas already prone to avalanche. This year is more chaotic.
“I know there were a lot of natural slides happening yesterday evening when people were driving home,” Winkler said. “They felt unsafe, and it was just kind of one of those glad-everybody-got-out-of-there scenarios.” Gleason said UDOT only has essential personnel working in the canyons because of the elevated and unpredictable avalanche risk. He did not have an estimate of how many people that included.
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