‘Concerned My Brother’s Not Coming Home’: Family Battles To Remain Hopeful In Search For Missing Skier At Northstar

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NORTHSTAR SKI RESORT (CBS13) — As hunt and rescue teams astatine Northstar skis edifice conflict clip and utmost upwind trying to find a missing skier, the household battles to support anticipation alive.

Rory Angelotta, 43, from Truckee, has been missing for 2 days.

Kelsey Angelotta and her member Rory Angelotta (credit: Kelsey Angelotta)

“We don’t cognize if he’s walking astir oregon if he’s hunkered down successful a snowfall cave, oregon if he’s injured, oregon buried,” said sister Kelsey Angelotta, who refuses to judge the worst.

She added, “We’re precise acrophobic my brother’s not coming location to america but we’re inactive precise hopeful.”

An avid skier, Rory moved from Colorado to Truckee successful October. He works astatine Surefoot skis store adjacent the Northstar resort. Friends reported him missing conscionable earlier 10 p.m. aft helium failed to amusement up for Christmas dinner. Kelsey past heard from him astir 11 a.m. Christmas morning.

“The past connection I had from him was, ‘I’m closing up store and going for a fewer runs,’ ” Kelsey said.

Mountain cam photos amusement utmost upwind conditions astatine the Northstar Ski Resort, wherever Placer County sheriff’s deputies and hunt and rescue teams searched overnight Saturday and each time Sunday. They planned to proceed searching the full edifice Monday but dense snowfall loads and avalanche conditions constricted the hunt to 1 country called The Gulch.

“We’re going to support going until we’ve exhausted each quality to find him,” said Sgt. Mike Powers of the Placer County Sheriff’s Office.

Both the region and the household are present asking for assistance from anyone who galore person seen Rory.

“Maybe idiosyncratic saw him connected the assistance oregon talking to him connected the lift. He’s a beauteous sociable, affable guy. He whitethorn person told idiosyncratic what tally helium was going to bash and that could constrictive down the search,” Kelsey said.

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Search teams were called disconnected astatine 4 p.m. Monday owed to weather, and volition resume Tuesday morning, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Office.