WBSkiing Guide

The Utah Avalanche Center says that dangerous avalanches are not expected in this terrain except during extreme or very unusual conditions. Click for details.

The Utah Avalanche Center says that this is generally low-angle terrain although the route may cross under steep avalanche runout zones. Click for details.

The Utah Avalanche Center says that this terrain has significant exposure to numerous commonly-occurring avalanche paths. Click for details.

The Utah Avalanche Center says that this terrain is exposed to significant avalanche hazards often with multiple terrain traps. Click for details.

Figure 8 Hill

Figure 8 Hill

Drainage	Twin Lakes Area
Terrain	Hill (convex)
Skiing Vertical	500'
Location	40.5920° / -111.6044°
Online Map	View on wbskiing.com

Previously the site of figure 8 contests, Figure 8 Hill was also the site of an avalanche fatality in 2010. (See a macro view of Figure 8 Hill.)

If you're sans skins, you can ride Brighton's Milly chairlift, boot the Millicent ridgeline, ski Stupid Chute and Figure 8 Hill, and return to Brighton by staying skier's right of the Twin Lakes reservoir.

Skier Dr. Steven VanderVoort, age 37, died in an avalanche on Figure 8 Hill on February 15, 1987. He had an avalanche transceiver in the bottom of his backpack that was not turned on (presumably because his partner didn't have an avalanche transceiver). Read the accident report.