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Rescue — Mount Washington, Apr 24, 2011

·Mount Washington·Dry River Trail

32-year-old male snowboarder from St. Boniface, Quebec Province · party of 2

Jean-Francois Massicotte, 32, became lost on April 24, 2011 after taking a wrong turn off the top of Tuckerman's Ravine, going south instead of east due to reduced visibility from fog above treeline and ending up in the Oakes Gulf/Dry River Wilderness area. He spent an unplanned night on the mountain in winter conditions. He was found uninjured on April 25 by ground searchers on the Dry River Trail after a NH Army National Guard helicopter tracked his footprints in deep snow for at least six miles.

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