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Rescue Crews Searching For Missing Snowboarder On Cypress Mountain

The Canadian Press, 30 Jan, 2016 01:18 PM
    VANCOUVER — North Shore Rescue is searching for a 40-year-old snowboarder missing on Cypress Mountain.
     
    Team leader Mike Danks says the Surrey man was supposed to be back by 2:30 p.m. Friday.
     
    He was last seen on the west side of the mountain in West Vancouver.
     
    Danks says crews have found a track leading below the Howe Sound Crest route.
     
    Crews also responded to a second call Friday night for a group of missing skiers, also below the Howe Sound Crest route.
     
    Rescue crews established cell phone contact and the skiers were escorted off the mountain safely.

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