Abstract: At approximately 11:45 a.m. on February 27, 2000, Employee #1, a volunteer and former professional patroller, was part of a crew of four ski patrollers performing "ski cutting" at a point just below the flank of Mt. Ogden at the Snowbasin Ski Area. Employee #1 was the first to traverse the snow pillow (built-up snow deposition). He had made one or two zigzags across the pillow when it fractured above him. He was engulfed by loose snow and carried down several hundred feet into some trees. Employee #1's coworkers located him within minutes via beacons/transceivers and freed him. He was airlifted to Mckay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, UT, where he was hospitalized with abdominal and facial/jaw injuries. Employee #1 apparently lost consciousness for several minutes during the rescue.