When 21-year-old snowboarder James William Martin’s abandoned Ford Explorer was found in the Mount Seymour parking lot on Tuesday officials believe he had already been missing on the mountain for four days, according to a story in the Vancouver Sun.
Search efforts were hampered Tuesday by hazardous weather and snow conditions. North Shore Search and Rescue did a sweep of the area from helicopter, but didn’t spot Martin. A foot search was too dangerous Tuesday because of avalanche risks, police say. . . .Police were calling Martin’s friends, family and employers Tuesday to see if he may have made it off the mountain without his vehicle. . . .“There’s a slim chance that he came down the mountain with a friend and left his car there, but we’re getting a dead end everywhere we look,” Rozon said.
Hopefully this story doesn’t end like the one last season at Wolf Creek.
[Link: Vancouver Sun]
