“It looked like a big snake coming down the mountain through the ice fall,” Ogwyn recalls of when he first saw the avalanche. “And I saw all my guides with the other Sherpa on ladders, going ...

Video posted by the Utah Avalanche Center shows a mass of light snow travel down the side of Mount Timpanogos through the air like a cumulus cloud or a plume of smoke.

“It kind of sounds a little bit like a freight train,” Phipps said. Phipps caught it all on camera. He said it all unfolded as a snowboarder and skier were coming down the mountain.

Around 4:30 p.m. the sheriff’s office was told about an avalanche at about 12,500 feet on Split Mountain, above Red Lake. Three hikers were caught in the avalanche while coming down the mountain ...

The location of the avalanche was about 4,800 feet up on the mountain. "It looked like he was basically sliding down the mountain," Phipps said, adding that he was surprised to see the men out ...

"It looked like he was basically sliding down the mountain," Phipps said, adding that he was surprised to see the men out there and "super concerned because there are a lot of fatalities that come ...