Rescuers say 'monster slabs of snow' made recovery difficult in the Monte Cristo Snowmobile Area.
A 37-year-old man was killed in an avalanche in the Utah backcountry while snowmobiling Monday, authorities said.Scott Wright, from Evanston, Wyoming, was snowmobiling with a friend in the Monte Cristo Snowmobile Area near the Rich County and Cache County line when the avalanche occurred, the Rich County Sheriff’s Office said.Wright "was caught, carried, and fully buried in a large hard slab avalanche" in the Whiskey Hill-Beer Hill area of Curtis Creek, the Utah Avalanche Center said.
It was unclear how the avalanche was triggered.VETERAN SKIER FOUND BURIED IN AVALANCHE ON DESOLATE TRAIL BY WIFE USING TRANSCEIVERDave Sparks, whose team at Sparks Heavy Rescue helped with the search, told FOX13 Salt Lake City that the way the slide fell made efforts "extremely complicated.""This was a difficult one because the slide was really, really big. It was one of the bigger ones I’ve seen," Sparks said.
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