Overview
- Salt Lake County Search and Rescue located a female climber who fell about 20 feet from Contract Buttress and began assisting her off the trail, with injuries described as non-life-threatening as of midafternoon Monday.
- On Saturday evening, teams rescued a stranded hiker on Mount Superior after he went off-trail in a snowstorm and became hypothermic.
- A Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter performed a hoist to extract the Mount Superior hiker, who was transferred to an ambulance and taken to a hospital in stable condition.
- Blowing snow, temperatures in the 20s and low visibility complicated operations across the Cottonwood Canyons over the weekend.
- Authorities noted the back-to-back responses followed a separate rescue of a man and three children in Big Cottonwood Canyon on Sunday, with two children reported in critical condition at the time of recovery, and reiterated SLCSAR guidance to leave a plan and carry the 10 essentials.