{"id":793255,"date":"2019-02-19T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T22:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=359829"},"modified":"2019-02-19T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T22:51:24","slug":"park-city-area-avalanche-buries-skier-in-harrowing-backcountry-episode-w-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/park-city-area-avalanche-buries-skier-in-harrowing-backcountry-episode-w-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Park City-area avalanche buries skier in harrowing backcountry episode (w\/video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/hamburgerbackcountryavalanche-TPR-022019-696x1240-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/hamburgerbackcountryavalanche-TPR-022019-696x1240-1.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/hamburgerbackcountryavalanche-TPR-022019-696x1240-1-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\"\/><figcaption><strong>An avalanche in the backcountry south of Park City buried a skier on Saturday. The slide stretched 200 feet wide and traveled downhill approximately 200 vertical feet, according to the Utah Avalanche Center. Others with the man rescued him.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Utah Avalanche Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An avalanche in the backcountry south of Park City on Saturday buried the skier who triggered the slide before others with the man rescued him, the Utah Avalanche Center said, a case that illustrates the continuing danger after the pummeling storms of recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Utah Avalanche Center said the slide occurred just east of Brighton Estates, a cabin community in Wasatch County, at an elevation of 9,000 feet. It was not immediately clear whether the avalanche occurred in Wasatch County. The Utah Avalanche Center said the slide occurred in the vicinity of Guardsman Pass, a high-elevation area close to the borders of Summit, Wasatch and Salt Lake counties.<\/p>\n<p>The avalanche stretched 200 feet wide and traveled downhill approximately 200 vertical feet. It was 3 feet deep. The Utah Avalanche Center said the slide was on an eastern aspect on a slope that is 47 degrees steep.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"about:blank\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-rocket-lazyload=\"fitvidscompatible\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CY3VIkAGdhk?feature=oembed\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><noscript><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CY3VIkAGdhk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A description posted to the Utah Avalanche Center website said the person who triggered the slide was the fourth skier on that slope on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew the steep part of the slope had a likelihood of breaking but thought it would be manageable. (We) all underestimated the amount of snowpack that broke,\u201d the description said.<\/p>\n<p>It indicated snow approximately 1 foot deep buried the skier. One ski stuck out of the snow, the description said. The skier was rescued from under the snow within a minute, according to the Utah Avalanche Center. A harrowing video of the avalanche was posted to the Utah Avalanche Center website.<\/p>\n<p>Trent Meisenheimer, a Utah Avalanche Center forecaster who investigated the Saturday slide, said in an interview the avalanche occurred on a small but steep slope. He said the person who was buried was with several other people in the backcountry when they built a skier jump out of the snow. The person went off the jump, landed on an especially steep part of the slope and triggered the avalanche, Meisenheimer said. The other people saw the slide and converged on the area where they saw the ski sticking out of the snow, he said, describing the scene as a \u201cfull burial except for his ski tip sticking out of the snow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The others were equipped with gear to rescue someone after an avalanche, including shovels, Meisenheimer said. They were \u201caware they were in avalanche terrain,\u201d he said. The person was buried for approximately 75 seconds, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just started digging and getting to his head,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cStuff did go right, because he lived. His partners were in a good location and were watching him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Utah Avalanche Center said early in the week there was a moderate danger of avalanches in the Park City-area backcountry. There was also a moderate danger in the Salt Lake-area mountains. The danger rating was high in the Uinta Mountains early in the week, according to the Utah Avalanche Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Utah Avalanche Center recommends people in the backcountry pay attention to the others they are with and carry a shovel, avalanche probes and avalanche beacons. The organization also recommends people be in a spot where they can quickly mount a rescue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/park-city-area-avalanche-buries-skier-in-harrowing-backcountry-episode-w-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An avalanche in the backcountry south of Park City buried a skier on Saturday. The slide stretched 200 feet wide and traveled downhill approximately 200 vertical feet, according to the Utah Avalanche Center. Others with the man rescued him.Courtesy Utah Avalanche Center An avalanche in the backcountry south of Park City on Saturday buried the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 18:50:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}