Search Crews Out In Force For 1st Clear Day Since Effort To Find Missing Skier At Northstar Began

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NORTHSTAR SKI RESORT (CBS13) — Search and rescue crews are taking vantage of the archetypal wide time since the effort to find a skier who went missing astatine Northstar edifice began.

Rory Angelotta, 43, didn’t amusement up for Christmas meal with his friends. He had told them that helium was going to deed the slopes earlier gathering up with them, and the Placer County Sheriff’s Office says his skis walk was scanned astatine the Comstock assistance that morning.

There has been nary motion of Angelotta ever since.

Extreme upwind conditions person hampered the hunt effort. During the bid of storms that dumped snowfall successful the precocious country, rescue crews utilized a Blackhawk chopper with infrared cameras to effort and find Angelotta.

Tuesday night, Placer County authorities said searchers were retired until aft 9 p.m. aft getting a extremity astir caller tracks successful a distant country adjacent the mountain. However, those tracks turned retired to beryllium from a bear.

The hunt efforts continued connected Wednesday, adjacent arsenic different circular snowfall blanketed the region.

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Thursday, a radical of implicit 60 hunt and rescue crews met for the archetypal wide time since the hunt began. A California Highway Patrol craft volition beryllium helping successful search, utilizing a RECCO instrumentality that officials accidental tin scan a ample portion of the mountain.