Utah County Sheriff Search and Rescue

Dec 22 2008

Missing skier at Sundance

Published by Shaun Roundy at 5:56 pm under Rescues

An injured skier skied out of bounds from below Sundance’s Arrowhead lift and hiked all the way to Wildwood in Provo Canyon.

SAR units accompanied Sundance Ski Patrol to track the man, but stopped when their FLIR (forward looking infra red) cameras, which showed the heat within the man’s tracks through the snow, led them to a narrow canyon with dozens of avalanche starting zones and high avalanche danger following recent storms. The man was soon located on the road.

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2 Responses to “Missing skier at Sundance”

  1. # Wil Lapointeon 20 Feb 2009 at 7:43 am

    Was this person ever identified? We are looking for a missing person from the Washington DC area. A known skier.

  2. # Shaun Roundyon 23 Feb 2009 at 6:38 pm

    I don’t know that his name was released, there was no press release on the Sheriff press releases page. I don’t recall where this man was from, but I don’t believe it was DC. Also, he was skiing with a group of friends and was not a missing person other than for a few hours that evening.

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