KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A search continued Tuesday for a backcountry skier reported missing near Big Mountain over the weekend.
Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry said the missing man is 62-year-old Jonathan Scott Torgerson of Columbia Falls, a physician at North Valley Hospital in Whitefish.
Torgerson was reported overdue Saturday night after skiing alone outside the boundary of Whitefish Mountain Resort just before a storm moved in, bringing strong winds and a foot of snow to the area.
On Sunday, wind gusts up to 50 mph and wind chills near minus 30 were reported near the top of Big Mountain.
Curry says Torgerson's family told searchers he was wearing an avalanche transceiver but they had not picked up a signal.
