The body of Alexander Gautreaux, the 23-year-old Mt. Shasta, California snowboarder who went missing at Northern California’s Mt. Shasta Ski Park on Thursday February 17, 2011 was found Sunday morning (February 20, 2011), according to a story in the Record Searchlight.
Gautreaux was found around 9 a.m. near the southeast side of Coyote Butte, about 100 feet from park boundaries, said Siskiyou County sheriff’s Capt. Jim Betts. . . Betts said it’s also not yet known what killed Gautreaux, who was found almost completely buried in snow, but he suspects asphyxiation at this point.
Gautreaux had gone missing Thursday after calling his family to let them know he was making “one more run” according to the San Jose Mercury News.
While search and rescue workers were looking for Gautreaux they rescued another “lone snowboarder who had fallen and landed upside down in a tree well.” This is the 15th snowboard death in North America in the past two months. Be careful out there. Seriously.
Our thoughts are with Gautreaux’s family and friends.
[Link: Record Searchlight and San Jose Mercury News]
