OXFORD, Maine — A pair of skiers who got lost after following the tracks of another skier to an out-of-bounds area of Maine’s Sugarloaf resort are safely out of the woods.
Wardens say 16-year-old Bradley Snow and 20-year-old Sven Bergeron, both of Oxford, slipped under the orange rope that marks the ski resort’s boundary Wednesday afternoon. They weren’t reported missing until hours later, and the search didn’t get under way until 11:30 p.m.
Thursday morning, Maine Warden Service Pilot Dan Dufault spotted the pair within nine minutes of arriving on scene.
More than a foot of snow fell in the area on Wednesday, and was falling until 1:30 a.m., and snow depths reached 5 feet.
MWS Game Wardens Scott Stevens and Kris MacCabe were able to get within a quarter-mile of the skiers by snowmobiles, and snowshoed the rest of the way, reaching them at 8:35 a.m.
Snow and Bergeron were transported to West Kingfield Road, reaching that location at 9:35 a.m., and were evaluated by Northstar EMS medical personnel. They were fine and left the scene with their parents.
Sgt. Scott Thrasher says the pair built a shelter to stay warm. He says they weren’t harmed, and were allowed to leave with their parents.