Has anyone heard the rumor of a couple of snowmobilers buried in UTAH??
Snowmobilers buried in Utah??
- Thread starter HiMark Racing
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Just found it.
Two snowmobilers died Wednesday in an avalanche on Logan Peak north of Salt Lake City, Utah, a sheriff's department official said.
Two people died after being trapped on Utah's Logan Peak during an avalanche.
Lt. Matt Bilodeau of the Cache County Sheriff's Office told CNN that someone using a satellite phone called at 10:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. ET) and told authorities about the incident.
"Two people were trapped," he said. "They have both been recovered."
The body of only one of them, a male, had been taken down the mountain, he said. Logan Peak's summit is at an altitude of 9,710 feet.
Though the area is not off limits to snowmobilers, they had been warned of the danger after a recent snowstorm.
"The media's been putting that in the paper, on the radio and on TV," Bilodeau said.
"We are still in extreme avalanche danger," he said, and he urged snowmobilers to "take into account they need to stay in probably the areas that have less of a slope to them."
CNN's Scott Spoerry, who grew up in the area, said a recent avalanche knocked out the water supply for the city of Logan's 47,000 residents.
"Every year, there's a few avalanches," he said.
The area is also popular during the summer, when hang gliders launch themselves from the peak.
Two snowmobilers died Wednesday in an avalanche on Logan Peak north of Salt Lake City, Utah, a sheriff's department official said.
Two people died after being trapped on Utah's Logan Peak during an avalanche.
Lt. Matt Bilodeau of the Cache County Sheriff's Office told CNN that someone using a satellite phone called at 10:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. ET) and told authorities about the incident.
"Two people were trapped," he said. "They have both been recovered."
The body of only one of them, a male, had been taken down the mountain, he said. Logan Peak's summit is at an altitude of 9,710 feet.
Though the area is not off limits to snowmobilers, they had been warned of the danger after a recent snowstorm.
"The media's been putting that in the paper, on the radio and on TV," Bilodeau said.
"We are still in extreme avalanche danger," he said, and he urged snowmobilers to "take into account they need to stay in probably the areas that have less of a slope to them."
CNN's Scott Spoerry, who grew up in the area, said a recent avalanche knocked out the water supply for the city of Logan's 47,000 residents.
"Every year, there's a few avalanches," he said.
The area is also popular during the summer, when hang gliders launch themselves from the peak.
That's hard to hear. Condolences to their families & friends.
Extreamly sorry to hear about the horrible accident that is news I never want to hear about another snowmobiler. Avalaches are my most feared thing when riding I have been cought in two once riding and It was a small one and the other skiing at a resort that was cought on film and it could have been bad but ended up okay. My prayres go out to the familys
I cut this from the UTAH site..sad day..think I will be getting a beacon soon!!
From another rider:
"I was not riding with the victims, They were in a group of four. The 2 that have passed on went up to the canyon south of the rodeo grounds went over a little hill into the rodeo grounds didnt even climb the rodeo grounds but started a little slide. they then hurried back over there same tracks into the canyon south of the rodeo grounds to get the heck outa there as they were riding down and out when the whole moutain slid we believe they got hit from the back. As it was all happening the other two riders were coming up and met the avy right as it was over. At this point we believe nobody had touched a hill. The victims had beacons, the other two did not. So the two without beacons hurried down to the lake about 3-5 min away. Found a group that my boss and cousin and a couple buddies were in. Not sure if the guy with the sattelitte phone was in that group or not. That group hurried back up to the avy. Found where the first guy was pretty quick with beacon and probes a group started digging for him. another group went lookin for the other one found him bout 50 yrds up. took about 20 min to dig them out. We got there bout 5 min after they got them out. The first one was burried about 10 ft under the secound about 5-6 ft under. guys took turns doing CPR for about 20-30 min before life flight got there. Sent the one off. Life flight made it back in about 20 min sent off the other one. Only found Jorgensons sled.
If I have left anything out and somebody that was up there can add to it please do.
Sorry bout the puncuation and spelling. "
From another rider:
"I was not riding with the victims, They were in a group of four. The 2 that have passed on went up to the canyon south of the rodeo grounds went over a little hill into the rodeo grounds didnt even climb the rodeo grounds but started a little slide. they then hurried back over there same tracks into the canyon south of the rodeo grounds to get the heck outa there as they were riding down and out when the whole moutain slid we believe they got hit from the back. As it was all happening the other two riders were coming up and met the avy right as it was over. At this point we believe nobody had touched a hill. The victims had beacons, the other two did not. So the two without beacons hurried down to the lake about 3-5 min away. Found a group that my boss and cousin and a couple buddies were in. Not sure if the guy with the sattelitte phone was in that group or not. That group hurried back up to the avy. Found where the first guy was pretty quick with beacon and probes a group started digging for him. another group went lookin for the other one found him bout 50 yrds up. took about 20 min to dig them out. We got there bout 5 min after they got them out. The first one was burried about 10 ft under the secound about 5-6 ft under. guys took turns doing CPR for about 20-30 min before life flight got there. Sent the one off. Life flight made it back in about 20 min sent off the other one. Only found Jorgensons sled.
If I have left anything out and somebody that was up there can add to it please do.
Sorry bout the puncuation and spelling. "
M
Mortgage Paul
Member
This last storm was warm for quite a while too before it got cold. In fact it rained like a ***** for a while in the valley before turning to snow.
So now we have some heavy and some dry on top of a base of dry fluff.
That's not so good.
So now we have some heavy and some dry on top of a base of dry fluff.
That's not so good.
S
Sno Junkie
Active member
Very tragic, my condolences go out to the families!!!
I held an avalanche course here at my house this year and it was very informative. I was amazed at how little we knew.
www.avalanche.org
Click on your area and read the advisory.
Here is the story and pics on the Utah avy.
http://www.avalanche.org/~uac/BRAIC.../12-24-08,East Face Logan Peak,Toby Weed.web/
I held an avalanche course here at my house this year and it was very informative. I was amazed at how little we knew.
www.avalanche.org
Click on your area and read the advisory.
Here is the story and pics on the Utah avy.
http://www.avalanche.org/~uac/BRAIC.../12-24-08,East Face Logan Peak,Toby Weed.web/
