A thirty-year-old snowboarder celebrated his birthday wet and cold in the North Shore Rescue Command Post early Sunday morning.
This after crews were called to save the man who ventured out of bounds on Cypress Mountain–the second rescue in just four days.
West Vancouver Police Sergeant Matt Dawson says there’s no reason to go out of bounds when there’s plenty of inbounds terrain to test your skills.
“It is a test of the resources for both the search teams, the police and the mountain itself.”
The man was stranded in the Montizambert Creek area. Crews were able to reach him by hiking up from Highway 99, as he was stranded below the snowline.
He had been with a friend, who called police when the man didn’t re-emerge from the out of bounds area.
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