Search and rescue groups in California are on the lookout for a skier who disappeared on Christmas Day, with officers saying rescue efforts have been hampered by report snowstorms within the Sierra Nevada mountain vary.
The person, Rory Angelotta, 43, a ski store supervisor from Truckee, was reported lacking Saturday when he did not present up for a Christmas dinner.
Angelotta’s final identified whereabouts are believed to be the Northstar Ski Resort, within the Tahoe area of the Sierra Nevadas, about 130 miles east of Sacramento.
The Placer County Sheriff’s Workplace stated its seek for him has been hindered by extreme climate and what a College of California analysis heart stated was report snowfall on the web site within the Sierra Nevadas.
The sheriff’s workplace stated Angelotta’s ski go was final scanned at Comstock Carry on the Northstar Ski Resort round noon Saturday and registered no exercise after that.
“An emergency ping on Angelotta’s telephone final confirmed a brief name constructed from the Northstar space at 11:25 a.m. earlier than his telephone was turned off. Angelotta’s automobile was additionally discovered parked within the Northstar parking zone,” the sheriff’s workplace wrote.
“Searchers responded and combed the mountain and surrounding areas, regardless of excessive climate,” the sheriff’s workplace wrote on Fb.
“Rescue personnel have been on skis, snowmobiles, and a snowcat throughout their search,” it stated. “They confronted excessive avalanche hazard, robust winds, whiteout flurries, frigid temperatures, and heavy snow hundreds earlier than calling off their search within the night, on December twenty sixth.”
The sheriff’s workplace stated search efforts continued Monday however confronted “important challenges” due to the extreme storm.
The sheriff’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Tuesday.
Kelsey Angelotta, Angelotta’s sister, informed NBC affiliate KCRA of Sacramento that her brother, who not too long ago moved to the Lake Tahoe space, had by no means skied the again facet of Northstar Mountain, which had simply opened for the season.
“That is unfamiliar territory,” she stated.
The College of California, Berkeley’s mountainside Central Sierra Snow Lab, about 15 miles west of Northstar, reported Tuesday morning that precipitation there had totaled 202.1 inches to this point in December, breaking the month’s report of 193.7 inches, set in 1970. It stated much more snow is forecast to fall within the subsequent few days.
The sheriff’s workplace stated it was assisted in its search and rescue efforts by Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue, Nevada County Search and Rescue and Northstar Ski Patrol.
The Placer County Sheriff’s Workplace requested members of the general public who might have seen or spoken to Angelotta the day he disappeared or since then to contact it.
