Backcountry snowmobilers could lose their rides
Posted May 10, 2010 7:55 am.
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British Columbia is looking at a bill that would let our neighbouring province seize and sell snowmobiles from so called high-markers.
B.C. Tourism Minister Kevin Krueger tells the Calgary Herald the proposed legislation would cover anyone who’s said to be putting others at risk through dangerous activities in the backcountry.
The 2009-2010 avalanche season has seen 12 people die in snow slides, including three men from the Calgary area.
Two of the men died in an avalanche near Revelstoke that RCMP believe was caused by high-marking.
