The Utah Avalanche Center reported two avalanche fatalities in separate slides Tuesday and over the weekend of men who each had ventured alone in the Wasatch Front backcountry.Wednesday morning, center forecaster Drew Hardesty said the avalanche danger was considerable.Credit: Utah Avalanche Center“You will likely trigger an unsurvivable avalanche 2-4 feet deep and a couple hundred feet wide in steep west to north to southeast facing terrain today,” he warned. “You will be able to trigger these from a distance or below. We have had two avalanche fatalities since Saturday. We don’t want any more tragedy.”Tuesday’s fatality was a 54-year-old man whose remains search and rescue crews retrieved Tuesday at Silver Fork in Big Cottonwood Canyon.“Sometime on the morning of Dec, 31, a solo split-boarder dropped into north-facing Davenport Hill, in the Silver Fork Drainage of Big Cottonwood Canyon,” the Avalanche Center reported. “He triggered an avalanche which subsequently caught, buried and killed him. Another party lapping the terrain to the south in Little Cottonwood Canyon noticed a single track into fresh avalanche debris on one of their laps and called Alta Central.”Search and rescue teams from AirMed, DPS, Utah Department of Transportation, Salt Lake Search and Rescue, Wasatch Backcountry Rescue, Alta Ski Area, and Utah Avalanche Center found the man with an avalanche transceiver and excavated the body. He was buried 20 feet deep, according to the Avalanche Center.Also on Tuesday,  Salt Lake City Search and Rescue recovered the body of a 38-year-old man from Canada who had gone missing in the Porter Fork area out of Millcreek Canyon. They had been blocked from searching higher elevation terrain for two days due to high avalanche danger.“The person appears to have gone into the backcountry alone on Saturday, Dec. 28, and was caught in the avalanche some time that afternoon,” according to the Avalanche Center.“By my count, there were another 10 avalanches triggered in the backcountry yesterday, including the fatality on north facing Davenport Hill into Silver Fork,” Hardesty said in his Wednesday forecast.His list included Butler Basin, Meadow Chutes, Lavina Creek, Ant Knolls, Little Water, Summit Park, Sheep Shit Ridge, Lackawaxen, Murdock Peak, and Davenport. “These were 2-4 feet deep and 200 feet wide on generally north- through east-facing aspects at 9,500 feet or so. Nearly all were triggered from a distance. This pushes our totals to just over 50 reported avalanches since Friday now failing on our old weak persistent weak layer of faceted snow from early season,” he said.A splitboarder was killed Tuesday in this avalanche on north-facing Davenport Hill in the Silver Fork drainage of Big Cottonwood Canyon. Credit: Wasatch Backcountry RescueThe post Separate avalanches kill two solo backcountry travelers appeared first on Park Record.