Nearly a thousand avalanches were reported to the Utah Avalanche Center during the 2023-24 winter.
An Intermountain LifeFlight helicopter hoists a Search and Rescue volunteer and the survivor of the Big Willow Apron avalanche before landing near Hidden Valley Park in Sandy, Thursday, May 9, 2024.
When the first slab broke, he was prepared. He deployed his airbag and, after it passed, immediately switched his bindings out of uphill mode to ski out of it. Then the second, larger slide steamrolled over him. It barreled him, forcing his face down, sending snow into his airways and tossing him over a cliff.— identified only as “Davenport” —to the Utah Avalanche Center. And yet, it wasn’t extraordinary.
“It would have made no difference at all,” he said, “because their assessment would have been in line with ... the forecasts would have issued anyway.” “When the slide stopped I remained submerged but managed to dig my face out, breathe, and begin to drag myself up and to the side of the couloir and ,” he wrote. “I likely was concussed or mildly hypoxic from my burial as I kept thinking this was a dream for several minutes. When my head cleared a member of the earlier party of three had skied to me and begun calling for a helicopter evacuation.
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