Missing Snowshoer Found Alive
Tahoe City Man Disappeared Near Boreal Mountain Resort
POSTED: 12:32 pm PST March 4, 2010
UPDATED: 1:55 pm PST March 4, 2010
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.
