article_snippet: Blake Ford, 21, and a friend ventured out into Hell's Canyon, a steep and narrow out-of-bounds area just outside the Snowbasin Ski Resort in Ogden, at around 10.40am.
article_snippet: After making only a few turns, the pair of snowboarders set off a slide, which carried Ford about 1,500 vertical feet to the bottom of a shallow and rocky gully, according to the Utah Avalanche Center.
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article_snippet: Daredevil: The slide carried Ford about 1,500 vertical feet to the bottom of a steep, shallow and rocky gully .
highlights_snippet: Ford and a friend were snowboarding Wednesday morning in out-of-bounds area outside Snowbasin Ski Resort .