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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Body of missing skier Carson May recovered at Sugar Bowl resort <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Source: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article63230582.html<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Highlights <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Search and rescue teams found body Monday under 5 feet of snow<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sugar Bowl official said May likely perished in avalanche<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Scent dogs credited with locating body<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> The body of ski instructor Carson May, 23, was found by search-and-rescue teams at Sugar <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bowl Ski Resort on Monday, February 29, 2016.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>By Cathy Locke and Brad Branan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The body of 23-year-old ski instructor Carson May was located Monday afternoon by search and <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rescue teams more than six weeks after he went missing at Sugar Bowl Ski Resort.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue team, along with El Dorado County Search and Rescue dog <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>teams, were training at the resort. The search dogs were taken to the area where May’s <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>cellphone last “pinged” in January. His body was found under 5 feet of snow, according to the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Placer County Sheriff’s Office.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>May, a Davis resident, was last seen Jan. 14. Despite an intensive five-day search, searchers <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>were unable to locate him at the time, and the effort was called off when weather conditions <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>grew severe.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sugar Bowl’s chief executive officer, Greg Dallas, said the discovery brought a feeling of <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sad resolution to May’s family and Sugar Bowl employees.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“It brings closure to the family, first and foremost,” he said. “Carson was one of ours, so <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>it brings closure for us, too.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Considering that May was found under a significant amount of snow, after weeks of warm <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>weather since his disappearance, he likely perished in an avalanche, Dallas said. His body <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>was found on the back side of Mount Judah, about a quarter-mile from the resort’s boundaries.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>May’s father, Mike May, said he is glad his son was found, but the discovery did not bring <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>relief.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“There’s no such thing as closure when you lose your son,” he said. “It’s an open wound that <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>will stay that way.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Carson May was an instructor with Sugar Bowl’s Mountain Sports Learning Center ski school, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>providing lessons to customers of varying skill levels.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>He was last seen by his brother when they were skiing the afternoon of Jan. 14. Searchers <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>were given an idea of his location by his brother, who said May was headed to his locker and <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>likely took a backcountry route to get there. The signal from May’s phone also indicated the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>backcountry route. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Placer County Sheriff’s Sgt. Dave Hunt, who oversaw the January search for May, said <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>searchers last month were hampered by high avalanche danger. Although considerable snowmelt <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>has since occurred, Hunt said searchers would not have located the body Monday without the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>aid of search dogs. He said the discovery was made about 2 p.m.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“Our condolences go out to the family and to all the volunteers that participated in the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>search,” Hunt said.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mike May said rescue workers did everything they knew to help find Carson, but he believes <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>there are better methods for finding people in snow. Mike May said he has been researching <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>different technology, some of which is used by law enforcement, and wants to find ways of <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>applying them to avalanche rescue.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A Davis resident, Mike May set a speed record for a blind downhill skier and was able to <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>regain sight later through a pioneering surgery. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Since his son’s disappearance, May also created a website, http://www.carsonmay.org/, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“Celebrating the life of Carson May.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>