CALIFORNIA — The Placer County Sheriff’s Office is suspending the search for Carson May at the end of today, January 19. The 23-year-old went missing at Sugar Bowl Resort on January 15 during white-out conditions, and despite days of intensive searching, has not been located.
Conditions during the five days of searching have been treacherous due to frequent heavy snow and the associated risks that high avalanche danger poses to the many search and rescue volunteers. Placer County Sheriff’s personnel, Sugar Bowl representatives and chaplains met with the May family today and it is with regret that we must suspend the efforts to locate Carson.
“The Placer County Sheriff’s Office would like to express our appreciation to the many volunteer searchers from the Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue, volunteer searchers from the multiple allied agencies, and the assistance of the Sugar Bowl staff who all worked tirelessly to locate Carson despite the extremely hazardous conditions,” the Sheriff said. “Should new information become available and environmental conditions allow, additional follow-up searches may occur.”
