
A 37-year-old man was killed in an avalanche in the Utah backcountry while snowmobiling Monday, authorities said. Scott Wright, from Evanston, Wyoming, was snowmobiling with a friend in the Monte Cristo Snowmobile Area near the Rich County and Cache County line when the avalanche occurred, the Rich County Sheriff’s Office said. Wright "was caught, carried, and fully buried in a large hard slab avalanche" in the Whiskey Hill-Beer Hill area of Curtis Creek, the Utah Avalanche Center said. The friend tried searching for Wright, but there was no avalanche transceiver...