Update: Central Cariboo Search and Rescue assisted in rescuing a 61-year-old injured female snowmobiler Monday in the West Chilcotin.
“She and her husband are trappers and were at their cabin when she was injured Sunday,” said CCSAR Chief Rick White late Monday. “They made their way to their cabin Sunday and tried to make their way out today.”
When they were unable to make their way out, they contacted B.C. Ambulance who teamed up with CCSAR and Highland Helicopters Ltd. in Williams Lake.
“Our team took the female to the hospital in Quesnel and as far as our team could tell her injuries were non-life-threatening.”
Original story:
Central Cariboo Search and Rescue has been dispatched to rescue an injured snowmobiler on the north side Itcha Ilgachuz Provincial Park in the West Chilcotin.
“We were contacted by Emergency Management B.C there was an injured female snowmobiler,” CCSAR Chief Rick White told the Tribune at 12:45 p.m. Monday, noting the call came in some time within the last hour.
“Two of our members are going out by chopper to rescue her and bring her back to the Cariboo Memorial Hospital.”
Highland Helicopters pilot Steve Goodliff said the flight will take about an hour one way from Williams Lake.
SAR ground searcher Dawn Unruh said she just returned from a seven-day snowmobile trip in the same area and said the snow was packed for spring sledding.
SAR search manager Paul Airey explained that means the snow isn’t powder anymore.
“It’s semi-compacted,” he explained.
Airey said the injured woman is waiting for them in a cabin with other people.
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