Four snowboarders who got lost while riding at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine on Sunday afternoon were located today after spending a cold night on the mountain, according to an Associated Press story.
A group of three snowboarders, plus a fourth one who was on his own, went out of bounds late Sunday afternoon in an area known as the snowfields, a large section of ungroomed expert terrain on the backside of the mountain. . . The Sugarloaf ski patrol and the Maine Warden Service searched late into the night Sunday, communicating with the lost snowboarders by cell phone and text messages and coming within shouting distance. But the search was hampered by high winds, steep terrain, thick spruce woodlands and the more than 5 feet of snow that had fallen since Wednesday. The temperature fell to 22 degrees.
The search was called off after midnight and the snowboarders were told to “hunker down” for the night. It appears that all four of the snowboarders (Luke Poisson, Cory Koop, Machali Belluscio, and Aaron Nadeau) are all doing fine after their night outdoors. Koop is literally from North Pole, Alaska so he probably slept fine.
[Link Associated Press]
That’s why they call it dope. Ducking that rope was not such a good idea huh boys?
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