Sicamous Missing Sledders

[Summit X]

Anybody else see this, or have any more info???


Search on for missing snowmobilers near Sicamous
Published: Monday, March 30, 2009
A search is underway today in the Sicamous area for three snowmobilers overdue near Blue Lake.

Search and rescue officials along with an RCMP helicopter are involved in the search.

According to the Canadian Avalanche Centre, the avalanche rating is considerable in the alpine area in that region.

 

[kjb]

I heard they spotted one fellow from a helicopter walking out, two others are missing...WTF???

 

[Alberta Boy]

I heard they spotted one fellow from a helicopter walking out, two others are missing...WTF???

Oh sh@%.... Here we go again...

 

[kjb]

Good news , they found the other 2 safe. I didn't hear any other details except the 3 stayed by a campfire over night and were reported missing.

 

[Bogger]

Good deal.....thanks for the good news

 

[JoHNI_T]

thats good news, we dont need any more bad news thats for sure...
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be safe peeeps

 

[rmktime]

thats good to hear

 

[Shredder]

That's great.:d Still be interesting to find out what happened.

 

[sledderdoc]

Yup glad they're safe, too bad about the fellow in Golden but at this point in the game it's not like you don't know about the dangers. Kind of makes one look stupid to get caught in one now doesn't it!

 

[Alberta Boy]

Good news , they found the other 2 safe. I didn't hear any other details except the 3 stayed by a campfire over night and were reported missing.

Thank god! That was going to be another difficult disscusion with my wife!!!

 

[cwhiting]

Great to hear, I'm happy everyone is safe. I agree it's been a very sad year, hopefully what's left of the season will be better.
Sympathy goes out to the Hay family.

 

[pipes]

good to hear that they are safe. Like someone else said, be interesting to know what their story is

 

[KingCatz]

There was a bunch in southwest alberta that were missing too. They were found as well. This is still bad media IMHO. Too much news about sledders lately.

 

[sledrocs]

Nice to here there alive cheers mate.

 

[BC Sno-Ghost]

Wow! A story with a happy ending. I think that's the first one this year.
Great to hear everyone is okay!

 

[Scrambled]

Finnally some good news about lost sleeders,would like to no why out of 3 machines 1couldnt be rode out?

 

[beeonaplug]

Thanks for the concern guys! We we up sledding Sunday , awesome 2 and a half foot dump up high. Had a blast in the meadows. Long story short. Three friends of mine went off and got into a 1500 ft. creek bed drop/ gorge and got stranded for the night. (we were riding separate from them). We were alerted that evening of them missing, and called rcmp, intern, alerted SAR. WE arrived in the morning to search for our friends at 7 am and Search and rescue was there set up and ready to go! Very impressed! A friend and I were up the hill at 7.30 am and arrived at the blue lake cabin only to find that no one had been there since the day before. We were both worried about the avalanche danger having so many recent casualties lately also both being involved in the recovery of the casualty rescue earlier in Jan at owls head. We searched for a while and heard the sound of our SAR radio reporting sighting buy rcmp helicopter, the guys walking out. What a relief! Finally a good story to report! We are so pleased for the quick effort of the rcmp and SAR. The rcmp chopper picked these guys up and brought them to the cabin. Guys, this is a story with a good ending for a change, thank God!
Hats off for the quick response of the rescue team and the rcmp heli team that found them so quickly! Oh! did I say 2 and a half feet of pow,... Sorry, Its all tracked up.... Ride safe people!

 

[Summitric]

thanks for the concern guys! We we up sledding sunday , awesome 2 and a half foot dump up high. Had a blast in the meadows. Long story short. Three friends of mine went off and got into a 1500 ft. Creek bed drop/ gorge and got stranded for the night. (we were riding separate from them). We were alerted that evening of them missing, and called rcmp, intern, alerted sar. We arrived in the morning to search for our friends at 7 am and search and rescue was there set up and ready to go! Very impressed! A friend and i were up the hill at 7.30 am and arrived at the blue lake cabin only to find that no one had been there since the day before. We were both worried about the avalanche danger having so many recent casualties lately also both being involved in the recovery of the casualty rescue earlier in jan at owls head. We searched for a while and heard the sound of our sar radio reporting sighting buy rcmp helicopter, the guys walking out. What a relief! Finally a good story to report! We are so pleased for the quick effort of the rcmp and sar. The rcmp chopper picked these guys up and brought them to the cabin. Guys, this is a story with a good ending for a change, thank god!
Hats off for the quick response of the rescue team and the rcmp heli team that found them so quickly! Oh! Did i say 2 and a half feet of pow,... Sorry, its all tracked up.... Ride safe people!

good to hear..... Glad there's a good story coming outta them thar hills these days...........

 

[Summit X]

thanks for the happy ending story, haven't had enough of those this winter.

 

[ferniesnow]

thanks for the happy ending story, haven't had enough of those this winter.

Just found out that X2 doesn't work; message must be longer than 10 characters.

It is true that we haven't had very many happy stories this season and we have been on pins and needles all winter but this is a happy story.

Everything worked well. Cheers.....