Out of bounds and lost

by Contributed - Jan 18, 2010 / 5:39 am CASTANET:

At 6 PM on Sunday, January 17th, Vernon Search and Rescue received a call from Silver Star Ski Patrol asking for their assistance in the search for 3 missing skiers. Twenty-one members responded to the request and arrived on scene at approximately 6:30 PM. The missing party, an 11 year old girl, 34 year old male and 37 year old female, had called the Silver Star Emergency line on their cell stating that they had purposely skied out of bounds and were lost. They had taken off their skies and had hiked around for quite some time before they had made the call on their cell so there position was not known. Once their tracks were located by a Silver Star Ski Patrol member, the team hiked into the area and located the lost party. It took approximately one hour for the group to walk out to a ski run where they were picked up and brought back to the Ski Patrol Hut in the village. The three were cold and tired but otherwise okay.