SANDY, Utah — Skiers, snowboarders and anyone else who ventured up Little Cottonwood Canyon on Saturday was stranded for some time after the highway was closed for avalanche mitigation.

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The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) shared the video above on X, showing the mighty wall of snow coming down Little Cottonwood Canyon south of Salt Lake City on Saturday. WINTER STORM LIVE ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A split boarder was killed in an avalanche in Big Cottonwood Canyon that Utah Avalanche Center ... to have happened about noon in Little Cottonwood Canyon, in the Davenport ...