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Second Snowmobiler Killed In An Avalanche In B.C.'s Interior Within Past Week

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 14 Mar, 2016 10:50 AM
    SICAMOUS, B.C. — An avalanche has taken the life of another snowmobiler in British Columbia's Interior, the region's second such incident within the past week.
     
    Rescue crews recovered the body of a man trapped in a snow slide near Crowfoot Mountain, about 90 kilometres northeast of Kamloops.
     
    A spokeswoman for the coroners' service says the man was part of a group of three snowmobilers.
     
    Shuswap Search and Rescue manager John Schut says three avalanche technicians were deployed to the site after crews were notified around 11:45 Sunday morning.
     
    No one else was injured in the slide.
     
    Last Tuesday, the body of a 34-year-old man was found in an avalanche zone near Sicamous, B.C., after crews picked up a signal from his personal-location device.
     
    He had left two days earlier on a solo backcountry trip and was known to go sledding for multiple days at a time.
     
    "I would caution people that avalanche conditions are quite dangerous around here right now," Schut says. "People need to be wary of that."

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