*** Snowboarder found Wandering down Riverbed ***

(Sat Jan 4/97):
Four snowboarders went down the 'Cakehole' on Whistler Mountain. B.C.,
down towards the Cheakamus River. They made it to the bottom, although
one of them had apparently injured or at least banged himself up on the
way down. They separated near Cheakamus River... Three of them made it
out and down the road and knocked on the door of the Brian Allen's house,
right where the road comes out. He notified Brad Sills of Whistler SAR,
who got things rolling.

We sent a team up the Cheakamus road on snowmobile and sent a team down
to the river. They found the subjects tracks and followed them downstream.
The tracks even went into the river and back out!  Another team descended
from the road to the river further downstream. they found no tracks and
proceeded upstream.  This team eventually found the subject - a 20 year
old male. Pretty cold and miserable and very scared... thought his
number was up!  He was quite wet and would have been in pretty bad shape
by morning. 

He was given snowshoes and helped back up the hill to the road and them
transported down to a waiting ambulance. He was warmed up and checked
over before being realeased for transport by RCMP vehicle back to
Whistler Village at about 130am.


Keith Powell
kpowell@whistler.net (or whis_sar@whistler.net)

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