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Snowmobiler killed in Sevier County avalanche

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, March 2, 2013 - 4:17pm

FERRON -- The victim of a central Utah avalanche has been identified as a Draper man.

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Riverdale resident Randy Sugihara in a trailer for the Alpine Assassins movie "We Ride"

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 4:54pm

Professional backcountry snowmobiler Randy Sugihara was injured in a snowmobiling accident recently. He is shown here in this trailer for the Alpine Assassins movie "We Ride".

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Professional backcountry snowmobiler Randy Sugihara rides his sled in an undated courtesy photo. Sugihara recently injured his back in a snowmobiling accident. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Snowmobiler Randy Sugihara recovers from accident

Contributed, Kendal Russell, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 2:57pm

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Body of missing snowmobiler found in near Moab

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 5, 2012 - 2:46pm

MOAB — Authorities are releasing the name of an 18-year-old snowmobiler who was buried in an avalanche in southeastern Utah.

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(KENDAL RUSSELL/Standard-Examiner) Utah Avalanche Center forecaster Craig Gordon leaves the parking lot by snowmobile after an avalanche caught a snowmobiler inMonte Cristo on Friday.

Snowmobiler escapes slide; more dangerous conditions await

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 7:37am

MONTE CRISTO — A snowmobiler caught in an avalanche Friday, at the start of what forecasters expect to be a dangerous weekend, escaped with just an injured leg.

Though avalanches caused by skiers, snowboarders or snowmobilers have been sparse in Northern Utah, high winds and heavy snow settling on top of weak snow this week led to a slide.

The unidentified man was with three other snowmobilers on Whiskey Hill, just outside of the Monte Cristo trailhead on Highway 39, when he triggered an avalanche halfway up a steep slope around 11 a.m., said Craig Gordon of the Utah Avalanche Center.

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Avalanche injures snowmobiler

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 24, 2012 - 10:44pm

MONTE CRISTO-- Rescuers are trying to reach an injured snowmobiler who triggered an avalanche in the Ogden Valley.

The location is in a remote area off Curtis Creek Road outside of Monte Cristo, according to the Weber 911 Dispatch Center. A snowmobiler has reportedly suffered a broken femur in the accident.

A Lifeflight Helicopter is enroute to the scene, said dispatchers.

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Teton County Search and Rescue helicopter pilot Ken Johnson is assisted after being flown out of the Togwotee Pass back country in northwestern Wyoming near Jackson on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. A helicopter crash in remote northwest Wyoming has killed one of the three people aboard who were trying to help a snowmobiler, and sheriff's officials say the snowmobiler also has died. The snowmobiler's party had called for help Wednesday. Teton County sheriff's officials say the helicopter had reached them but was leaving to get more help when it crashed on Togwotee Pass. They say 63-year-old rescuer Ray Shriver was killed, and the pilot and another rescuer were taken to a hospital. Sheriff's officials say deputies reached the snowmobilers after tending to the helicopter victims, but 53-year-old Steven Anderson of Morris, Minn., also has died. Details of what led his party to call for help weren't immediately available. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News & Guide, Bradly J. Boner)

Rescuer, snowmobiler killed when copter crashes

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 1:07pm

JACKSON, Wyo. -- Federal authorities on Thursday were investigating the crash of a search-and-rescue helicopter in northwest Wyoming that killed a volunteer crew member who was trying to help an injured snowmobiler who also died.

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