A skier narrowly escaped an avalanche he triggered near Brighton, demonstrating the danger of slides on north-facing slopes. The skier was on Pioneer Ridge, west of Brighton, on Thursday morning when he released a slab that took out nearly all the snow on the steep, north-facing slope below him, exposing the ground under the snowpack. âLuckily, he was not carried down because it would have been difficult to survive the rocky, steep ride,â wrote staff at the Utah Avalanche Center, which reported ... <img src="http://mngislctrib.112.2O7.net/b/ss/mngislctrib/1/H.17--NS/0?&pageName=RSS" height="1" width="1" border="0" alt=""/>