Even after the quest was called off for a ski instructor who has been missing since that day, Christian Michael Mares stays unapologetic. He wore a personal video and a few friends likewise recorded the clip as Mares boarded down a steep run on Jan. 15 at Sugar Bowl Resort, a prominent destination northwest of Lake Tahoe. Mares is seen getting covered under a cascade of snow, then marvelling about his feet after battling his way to the surface. The extremely active avalanche area known as Perko's has been closed to the public since 2010.
'We were just trying to go find some freshest somewhere and just go have fun like we usually do,' Mares said, as stated by CBS News. 'And then I got caught in the avalanche.'
Carson May, a 23-year-old ski instructor at Sugar Bowl, was most recently seen the day prior to Mares' trick and was reported missing that same morning. Before calling off the hunt, crews focused on the avalanche area, as indicated by the Associated Press that is the place where May's telephone last pinged. Mares still doesn't believe there's any connection between the two instances and coldly disallowed the resort's scoldings for his trespassing.
'What happened with Carson is bad publicity for them because he works for them and they cannot find him and now this happened, so they had to protect their- in order for them not to look bad to the public,' Mares added.
Sugar Bowl authorities are pursuing criminal accusations against Mares, for trespassing into a closed area of a ski resort though the Placer County Sheriff's Department runs the investigation.
'They need to be aware that it's not just, oh I can get away with this,' John Monson, director of sales and marketing at Sugar Bowl, said. 'It has much farther reaching ramifications.'
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