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Provided by: David Budge, Mountain Guide, Utah Mountain Adventures

The Canyons Rescue Training Center is up and running in it's new home.  It took a little while longer than we hoped, but we finally got enough snow to bury the targets and open it up.  It is currently located at Mid Mountain on the Chicane ski run - about 100 Yards north of it's old location.  It's still a great, convienent place to stop and do a few quick drills to keep your skills sharp on your way to Tombstone and beyond, or use it to learn your beacon and hone your skills.  Stay tuned for beacon seminars later this month.

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Members from WBR UDOT, Brighton and Snowbird responded with Salt Lake County Sheriff SAR to an incident off the pfeifferhorn peak in Little Cottonwwod Canyon weds 5-11-2011. A party of two backcountry skiers fell while descending the NW couloir resulting in 1000 ft "slide for life" through the couloir and over a cliff at the base. WBR teams responded on the ground and in the air with help from a Life Flight helicopter crew. The two patients were packaged, transported to a landing zone and flown from the backcountry. 

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Cole Sport Deer Valley

Park City Fire Department

Jamey Liddell

Wanderlust Photography

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White Pine Touring

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Knead a massage

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Tuesday at approximately 8:26 am one of our Brothers, longtime Jackson Hole Ski Patroller, Mark “Big Wally” Wolling, was buried in an avalanche.  Mark was performing avalanche mitigation work inside the resort when he was apparently caught and swept over a cliff and subsequently buried under six feet of avalanche debris.  Mark was quickly transported to the base clinic and then transferred to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, where he is in the Intensive Care Unit.