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Police searching for man following assault
Columbia Valley RCMP Report
By S/Sgt. Marko Shehovac
At 12:26 a.m. on Feb. 22, Columbia Valley RCMP Detachment attended to a domestic assault complaint in the 1500 block of 13th Avenue in Invermere. Upon arrival police found that an adult female had been assaulted by a male but no medical attention was required. The male had already departed the area before police arrived. The investigation is continuing as RCMP work to locate and charge the male.
Theft from a vehicle in Radium
On Feb. 20, Columbia Valley RCMP Detachment received a complaint of theft from a vehicle parked in the underground parking lot of the Pinewood condo’s in Radium Hot Springs. The vehicle was left unlocked.
RK flies Calgary sledder injured in avalanche to hospital
At 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 23, Columbia Valley Detachment received a report that an emergency Spot Beacon was activated indicating an emergency in the area of Tiger Pass west of Brisco.
A phone call revealed that a group of about five males were in the Tiger Pass area with their snow machines. Search and Rescue were activated. RK Heli-Ski and Canadian Mountain Holidays helicopters were working in the area. They, along with their staff, responded. It was learned that a 32-year-old male from Calgary had injured his shoulder and required medical attention. RK Heli-Ski was able to land and pick up the male and fly him directly to Invermere & District Hospital. The injuries are non-life threatening.
Tiger Pass, west of Brisco is not the safest area to be using machines.
Columbia Valley Detachment along with our local Search and Rescue group appreciate the quick response to this emergency by RK Heli-Ski and CMH Helicopters. With backcountry assistance regardless if it is their clients or not, they are quick to respond to all emergencies in the backcountry.
Blood drawn
Progress report for the DTSS/RCMP Rotary challenge cup. RCMP 8 – DTSS Canucks 1. Good sportsman would say good try guys. It’s not all about winning but how the game is played. Good sportsman and mature adult would say that but, certainly not me.
Wrong turn in life
Not really police related but we all experience making the wrong turn in life and suffer the consequences. It’s how you work to get back on track that defines character!
Watching the men’s Olympic downhill competition jarred my memory. To appreciate this story you have to know I am not a good skier. Green runs scare me.
When friends from Ontario came out to visit us while stationed in Maple Ridge, I decided to take them to Whistler and agreed to go skiing. My friend’s wife was a skilled skier and at one time practiced with the Women’s ski team. It just so happened that Whistler was preparing for a Men’s World Downhill competition. First time on the hill, I’m just following my friends. We stop and the decision was to go to the right. The wrong turn in life. I didn’t know it at the time but this fateful turn took us on the run being prepared for the Men’s World Downhill competition.
I’m fighting just to go side to side; my legs killing me. I’m looking down at what I considered cliffs and thought a parachute would be desirable. There was no turning back.
I ended up on my butt pretty much to the end of the run. When I say ended up on my butt, this is not because I’m constantly falling down, it was a life saving choice. I clung to the edge of the run and at one point I actually see they are icing the run. They are icing the run and my butt has no grip. I have no crapons, no spiked boots.
Once I get through the ice field I eventually get to an area they must have called the Mount Everest drop, because I’m looking at one hell of a drop. One of many I must say. The problem with this drop is I don’t see bottom. So I crawl further to the side where there is soft snow and some fencing. I’m not exaggerating when I say I think it took me about an hour and a half to reach safety. I was done for the day. Every ounce of energy was all used up in the process of saving my life.
I later watched the competition on TV from the comfort of home trying to convince people to believe me when I repeatedly bragged that I went down that run. And that Mount Everest drop as I called it, don’t know why they even bothered to groom it, as skis never touched the majority of that portion of the hill. When I watched my peers go down the hill at the 2014 Olympics in a matter of two minutes, I truly appreciate the limit they are pushing themselves.
