CEDAR FORT, Utah, March 27, 2023 (Gephardt Daily) — Crews are searching for a 38-year-old man believed to be buried in an avalanche while snowmobiling Monday evening in Utah County.
Utah County Sheriff‘s Sgt. Spencer Cannon said the avalanche was reported at 6:09 p.m. in Pole Canyon northwest of Cedar Fort.
“One person is missing and believed to have been buried by the avalanche,” Cannon told Gephardt Daily, describing the victim as a 38-year-old man.
“If we aren’t able to find him tonight, we’ll come back first thing in the morning and re-evaluate, get back up there and do some looking,” he said.
Cannon called it a “very large slide,” dropping about 1,500 feet and measuring about a half-mile long.
The snowmobiler was wearing a beacon at the time of the avalanche, he said.
“Conditions are very difficult right now,” Cannon said. “There are still avalanche conditions up there.”
Gephardt Daily will update this story as more information becomes available.
