Friends Find Body of Skier Missing Since February
The body of one of two Orange County skiers missing on Mt. Baldy since February was found six feet beneath the snow Saturday by friends of the men who continued searching every weekend, authorities said.
Charles Prior, a 33-year-old professional pilot from San Clemente, was found in Coldwater Canyon beneath Thunder Mountain, said Deputy Debra Dorrough of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
The area is the same one that authorities searched for days after the experienced skiers were reported missing Feb. 11 during one of the worst storms in years. They were presumed to have died in an avalanche.
Twenty search-and-rescue workers with the sheriff’s department are expected to begin looking in the same area today for Tim Pines, a 31-year-old project manager for Mazda facilities in Irvine, Dorrough said.
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