SALT LAKE CITY — A 57-year-old man who was critically injured after being trapped in an avalanche Saturday in Big Cottonwood Canyon has died.
Two people were caught in an avalanche near Butler Fork around 10 a.m.
Members of a backcountry skiing group who reported the avalanche were able to locate and pull both men out from the snow before first responders arrived, the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office said.
The man was taken to the hospital in critical condition and he later died, Salt Lake County sheriff's spokesman Chris Bronson confirmed Thursday. The man's identity has not been released and Bronson did not indicate when the man died.
The second man, a 48-year-old, was also hospitalized in serious condition; he has since been released.
This marks the latest death in a string of Utah avalanche fatalities in under two weeks
An 11-year-old Massachusetts girl died last Thursday in a backcountry avalanche near Brighton Ski Resort. A day prior to that in Wasatch County, a man was killed in an avalanche while riding a snowmobile with his son.
Forecasters of the Utah Avalanche Center warned that danger remains high in the mountain areas of Logan and the Uintas.
Avalanche danger was forecasted as considerable across northern and central Utah mountain areas, the center's website said Thursday.
