The family, who was not immediately identified, was in Cache County’s Logan Canyon when one of the brothers triggered an avalanche as he rode across a steep slope beneath a section of rock face, according to an incident report from the Utah Avalanche Center.

The miracle Utah rescue came after the man's brother had been buried under several feet of snow by an avalanche on Christmas Eve.

“Because the new snow will overload weak, pre-existing faceted snow, avalanches may be triggered from hundreds of feet away, making for particularly tricky and dangerous conditions,” according to the center.

Utah Avalanche Center officials issued a backcountry avalanche warning covering backcountry areas in Utah County through southeast Idaho.