A Christmas night rescue: How search crews found a lost snowboarder off Whitefish Mountain Resort
A survival cabin on the north side of Big Mountain on the Flathead National Forest. The shelter is maintained by the Flathead Snowmobile Association. (Matt Baldwin/Daily Inter Lake FILE)
Map of Forest Road 316 around the North side of Whitefish Mountain Resort. (Courtesy of Flathead Snowmobile Association)
It was the early evening of Christmas Day when Julie Balch received a call from the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office that a snowboarder had gone missing at Whitefish Mountain Resort.
Dispatch was contacted around 5:30 p.m. by someone who hadn’t heard from their friend in two hours and was waiting in the parking lot. The 18-year-old was last seen on both the front and backside of Big Mountain.
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