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JACKSON, Wyo. — The bodies of two backcountry skiers missing for a week, including a Salt Lake man, were found Sunday in Grand Teton National Park.
Crews picked up avalanche beacon signals late Saturday in their search for Walker Pannell Kuhl, 27, of Salt Lake City, and Gregory Seftick, 30, of Columbia Falls, Mont.
Searchers found the men's bodies in a tent buried under 13 feet of snow Sunday morning, according to the National Park Service.
Kuhl and Seftick had skied into Garnet Canyon on the east side of the Tetons on April 16 with the intent to scale Grand Teton, the park's highest peak. Park officials said an avalanche off the north face of Nez Perce Peak buried their tent that night.
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