Snowmobilers spend frigid night in Clearwater backcountry
KAMLOOPS — One snowmobiler is lucky to be alive after falling off a cliff bank northeast of Clearwater Saturday.
Kamloops Search and Rescue Search Manager Alan Hobler says an Alberta man and four others were snowmobiling in an out-of-bounds area near Finn Creek when he went over a steep cliff, sustaining serious leg injuries.
Hobler says the group ended up sleeping overnight in the frigid temperatures waiting for rescue crews.