New Years Eve Search

The Christmas busy period for Search & Rescue continues.

Killaine & I were up in Pemberton for four days - in the meantime, there was a major search for a man missing from the Mt. Seymour ski area for three days.  The chap was found alive the afternoon of New Years Eve.

Killaine & I arrived home later that afternoon.  A few hours later, I received a page indicating that the aforementioned fellow may have seen other tracks in his descent down Suicide Gully, and that we needed to check them out.

Stan, Jimmy & I headed up the Mt. Seymour roadway and snowshoed into the Suicide Creek area.  We hiked up the escape trail a short distance until we met up with the fellow's footprints.  We followed his path for about an hour, back down to the road, but did not find any other footprints.  We had searched through the area that the subject described as having seen the footprints, so we were quite comfortable that there were none others to be found.

We reached our conclusion at around 10:30, and we all managed to make it home for midnight for new years celebrations!