Skier caught in avalanche at Snowbird resort dies
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Published: December 14, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A skier caught up in an avalanche at Snowbird is in critical condition.
Resort spokesman Dave Fields said two doctors were on hand when the skier was dug out of snow and airlifted to University Hospital in critical condition just after 1 p.m. Sunday.
Rescuers located the buried skier using probes.
The slide let loose from Snowbird's highest point, hours after the resort opened new terrain off 11,068-foot Mount Baldy. In that area, skiers have to hike for about 20 minutes before descending.
Fields says ski patrollers dropped hand charges earlier in the day off Mount Baldy as part of avalanche control work there.
Ski patrollers and others were searching for anybody else who might have gotten caught in the debris field, using dogs, probes and avalanche beacons.
Snowbird has received about a foot of new snow from a storm that started late Friday.
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