Missing snowboarder rescued on Vancouver’s
North Shore
CBC News
Posted: Dec 18, 2012
9:27 AM ET
Last Updated: Dec 18,
2012 9:47 PM ET
Sebastien Boucher, 33, a snowboarder who
was lost in Vancouver’s North Shore mountains for two full days, was contacted
by the North Shore Rescue team shortly after 5.pm..While, although on Monday
two teams searched intensively for Boucher, they were unable to find him. "We had some of our most experienced
people on skis going into terrain and it was very, very difficult,” said Tim
Jones, who is with the North Shore Rescue. Some fresh
tracks were sprouted, which indicated he was on the move and a team was dropped
by the tracks just before darkness. They had tried other ways of pinpointing
Boucher’s location but the GPS signal was to weak to track due to the fact that
he had turned it off to save the battery. Boucher was believed to have gone out
of bounds in his snowboarding journey that started Sunday morning at Cypress
Provincial Park in West Vancouver. He is said to have started on “Mount
Strachan, within the Cypress Mountain ski boundary, when he went out of bounds
toward the Montizambert Creek area.”
I’m so happy to hear that he was found. I
think that even though Boucher wanted to save his phone battery, he should have
turned it on shortly during the day to allow the team a chance to pinpoint his
location with GPS an then turn it off again. Also the fact that he was on the
move is encouraging. It suggests he knew the risks of snowboarding and how to
keep himself warm and active, trying to reach home. It’s dangerous and anything
can happen, especially when going out of bounds but I’m pleased to hear the
effort to find him was immediate, strong, and obviously effective as they found
him in time.
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