Rescued skiers are recovering
Two skiers were in good condition Monday after being plucked from the snowy Sierra Nevada, where they had been missing for two days during a winter storm.
Patrick Frost, 35, and Christopher Gerwig, 32, of San Francisco were spotted by a Placer County Sheriff’s Department helicopter in the Five Lakes Creek drainage about seven miles from the Alpine Meadows ski resort.
Frost and Gerwig told rescuers they had unintentionally skied out of bounds off the back side of Alpine Meadows and became lost during whiteout conditions Saturday. The men, described as expert skiers, were flown to Auburn Municipal Airport and taken to a hospital as a precaution, authorities said.
The pair suffered “really minor, minor” frostbite to their toes after being exposed to the weather for two days, hospital spokeswoman Janice Davis said.
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