SAR: Locates missing snowboarders at Heavenly

Friday, January 11, 2008

SAR: Locates missing snowboarders at Heavenly

Search and rescue locates missing snowboarders at Heavenly

On Thursday evening, January 10^th, 2008, at approximately 5:30 p.m., members of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office responded to a call of two snowboarders who had become lost while snowboarding at Heavenly Valley Ski Resort. The snowboarders had purposely snowboarded off-trail and were unable to get back to the customary operated trails. The snowboarders had reported this information to a friend via cell phone. The friend, in turn, contacted DCSO.

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Team was toned out at approximately 5:50 pm to search for the two lost snowboarders. Twenty-four members of the Search and Rescue Team responded and set up a staging area at the Heavenly Boulder parking lot, off of Kingsbury Grade. The snowboarders remained in intermittent contact with the lost subjects via cell phone. Information gathered from the lost subjects provided Search and Rescue members a clue as to the general area where the subjects might be.

A team of Search and Rescue members snow-shoed approximately one quarter of a mile into the Palisades area off of lower Kingsbury Grade, utilizing portable lights to help find their way to the subjects. They located the two lost snowboarders at approximately 7:55 p.m.

The snowboarders were found cold and tired, but otherwise unharmed. With assistance from the Search and Rescue Team, utilizing additional snowshoes carried by the team members, the lost subjects were extricated from the area.

The Search and Rescue Team returned with the lost subjects to the Heavenly Boulder parking lot, reaching the staging area at approximately 9 pm. The two located subjects, Craig Finnegan and Kirk Goldsand, both 21 years of age, were extremely grateful to the Search and Rescue Team for locating and extricating them.

Source: News 4

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Friday, January 11, 2008