Second Mt. Hood Meadows snowboarder dies in 2 days
GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A 47-year-old Northern California man who had been reported missing when he didn't return home after a work trip to Oregon was found dead in Heather Canyon at Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort on Monday.
It was the second snowboarder death in Heather Canyon in the past two days. On Sunday, a Portland man died after a snowboarding fall.
Family members of Tim Bauters contacted the Hood River County Sheriff's Office on Monday after he failed to return home to Sunnyvale, California after a work trip to Oregon, KGW reported.
Family members told authorities they'd last communicated with him at Mount Hood Meadows on Friday. They said he went to the resort multiple times during his work trip, and said he was snowboarding alone. He "was reportedly in good shape," deputies said.
Members of the Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Patrol found Bauters' vehicle, which was still on site. Resort security was able to narrow Bauters' last time and location from his lift scans.
The sheriff's office launched a search and rescue aircraft to find Bauters, and his body was found in Heather Canyon at about 6:15 p.m., deputies said.
