| Updated: Feb. 11, 2021, 12:30 a.m.
An avalanche in Mill Creek Canyon crashed down the north face of Wilson’s Peak on Saturday, killing four young Utahns in one of the deadliest slides in Utah’s modern recreation era.
One skier clung to a tree as seven others were swept away. Six were buried, and one was partially covered in snow, according to the Utah Avalanche Center.
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He used a transceiver to locate signals being transmitted by beacons carried by buried skiers, and dug down to two who were trapped under 3 to 5 feet of snow, Hardesty said.
“To see this occur,” he said, “and then have the wherewithal to go acquire the [beacon] signals and do not one but two full and deep burials and rescue two lives, is amazing.”