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Missing man sought in Boreal Ridge ski area

Published Wednesday, Mar. 03, 2010


Authorities are looking for a 28-year-old Tahoe City man who went missing Tuesday afternoon in the Boreal Ridge ski area after he went snowshoeing and cross-country skiing with a group of friends.

Nevada County Sheriff's officials said in a statement released Wednesday night that Kevin Bradstreet Davis was reported to be lost near Peter Grub hut in the area of Castle Peak on Donner Summit.

He was reportedly with three friends and became separated from them after the party spent the night at the hut and were returning to their vehicles.

Nevada County search and rescue workers launched a search, but the tracks they found and believed to belong to Davis were quickly obscured by the snowfall.

Authorities described Davis as a white man who is 6 feet tall and weighs 180 pounds. He has brown hair and green eyes and was last seen wearing a black jacket, black ski pants, green hat and a green backpack.

Many agencies, including the Truckee Police Department, the El Dorado and Placer County Sheriff's departments, the California Highway Patrol, the Air National Guard, the Tahoe Nordic National Ski Patrol and Cal EMA, are participating in the search. Agencies from as far as San Mateo and Contra Costa counties are also aiding the search.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Nevada County Sheriff's department in Truckee at (530) 582-7842.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/03/2581434/missing-man-sought-in-boreal-ridge.html

How unfortunate. I know this area well. Simple terrain, but it is easy to get lost in snow covered areas, if you are not used to it, and are a competent navigator. Hope this guy knows how to survive in the snow, but if he lacks nav skills, you wonder.

Best wishes for him.

I'll be there tomorrow...I'll keep my eyes peeled. Thanks for the post.

Latest from the News at Noon Ch 3 I think.
He left the hut ahead of his buddies so he would have a head start.
He was unfamiliar with the area.
He had no map.
He had some water but his buddies don't think he had much if any food.

In his favor:
He has some backcountry experience.
He had a backback and may have a sleeping bag.

It's very easy to mistake the first saddle for Castle Pass and then head westward off toward the Lola Montez Trail area traveling on the north side of Andesite Peak and thereby be out of sight of Boreal and I80.

He's been found alive.

http://www.kcra.com/news/22743572/detail.html



Tahoe City Man Disappeared Near Boreal Mountain Resort

DONNER SUMMIT, Calif. -- A Tahoe City man who disappeared for two days near Boreal Mountain Resort was found alive Thursday afternoon.

Kevin Davis was spotted just northwest of Peter Grubb Hut, about three miles north of Interstate 80. He was airlifted to Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee for treatment.

Davis had been missing since about noon on Tuesday when he went snowshoeing with some friends.

Nevada County rescue workers started searching for him Wednesday. Temperatures had dipped into the single-digits overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning.

At least 75 search and rescue teams from Nevada, Placer, Amador, El Dorado, Siskiyou, Marin, San Mateo, Contra Costa, and Washoe, Nev., counties, as well as the California National Guard and the California Highway Patrol, looked for him Thursday morning.

Crews searched from Tahoe's Hole in the Ground area to the west of Peter Grubb Hut, where Davis was last seen.

A search helicopter was seen above the area Thursday morning.

Good for him and his family and friends.

His story of surviving this is going to be a classic study. So many things done wrong and enough done right to survive.