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2025-01-01

Solo Snowboarder Killed in Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT, Avalanche on New Year’s Eve


A 54-year-old man died in an avalanche on Tuesday, December 31, the second avalanche-related fatality in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains in three days. The incident occurred in the Davenport Hill area of Little Cottonwood Canyon, east of Salt Lake City.

“A backcountry tourer on a splitboard was killed in an avalanche in Little Cottonwood Canyon on December 31, 2024, in the area of Davenport Hill.”

– avalanche.org

The Utah Avalanche Center  (UAC) reported that the victim, whose identity remains undisclosed, was traveling alone on a splitboard in the Silver Fork area when the avalanche struck. The exact timing of the event is uncertain, but it’s believed to have happened Tuesday morning.



Related: SnowBrains Podcast Ep. 73 | Dr. Ethan Greene – Director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center



A skier from another party noticed a single track leading into a recent avalanche debris field and alerted Alta Central. This triggered a multi-agency rescue team response, including the Department of Public Safety, AirMed, Wasatch Backcountry Rescue, Salt Lake County Search and Rescue, Utah Department of Transportation, and the UAC.

Using avalanche transceivers, the rescue team located and recovered the victim’s body. Deputy Arlan Bennett of the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the fatality but could not provide details on the victim’s activities leading up to the avalanche.

Just three days prior, on Saturday, an overdue hiker from Canada was killed by an avalanche in nearby Millcreek Canyon. His body was recovered on Tuesday, the same day as the Little Cottonwood Canyon incident.



Since Friday, the Wasatch Mountain backcountry, including the Cottonwood canyons, has been under a high avalanche warning. The UAC attributes the increased risk to a dangerous combination of heavy, water-laden new snow on a weak, pre-existing snow layer. An Alta monitoring site has recorded over three feet of fresh snow since Christmas Day, mirroring conditions throughout the Cottonwood canyons. Since December 27th, 58 backcountry avalanches have been reported to the Utah Avalanche Center from the Salt Lake, Provo, and Ogden mountains. Of these, 41 occurred in the Salt Lake area alone. Many were triggered remotely or from a distance, failing multiple feet deep and over a thousand feet wide. One example is a skier remotely triggering a 2-foot-deep, 300-foot-wide soft slab avalanche on a persistent weak layer while skinning 150-200 feet away on low-angle terrain (20-25°) in Mill D North.



Avalanche experts stress that human-triggered and natural avalanches are likely across the Wasatch Mountains under these conditions. They strongly advise backcountry enthusiasts to avoid slopes steeper than 30 degrees and to exercise extreme caution in avalanche-prone terrain.

There is not yet a report on the UAC website.

The fatality is the fourth avalanche-related death of the 2024-25 season in North America.



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