Avalanche — Western Uinta Mountains, Utah
March 7, 2025 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
A report of a skier who failed to return home by 500 pm MST was received by Summit County Dispatch on the evening of the event 3/7. A search and rescue operation was started that evening, and crews found evidence of a recent slide, but due to reportedly extremely hazardous conditions the crews had to wait to until the following morning. Search and continue the search rescue crew ultimately found the body of a deceased 51 year old man at 1049 am MST, with a determination that he had been caught in the avalanche on a steep northeast aspect of Hoyt Peaks NE bowl. A forecaster with the Utah Avalanche Center stated that warm and strong spring sunshine may have been a contributing factor to reactivate multiple weak layers buried beneath the current snowpack. A nearby SNOTEL, Beaver Divide, recor
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.