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Case Note On Blackburn Vs. Golden And District Search And Rescue

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Blackburn v. Golden and District Search and Rescue, RCMP, and Kicking Horse Mountain Resort. By: Austin Pigeon March 2017 Part 1: In the case between Gilles Blackburn (plaintiff) and Golden Search and Rescue, RCMP, and Kicking Horse Mountain Resort (defendants), Blackburn took the three defendants to the BC Supreme Court and sued each of them for negligence for not commencing a rescue, which lead to the death of his wife, Marie-Josée Fortin (Petrovics, 2011). Blackburn claims that between February 17 and 21, 2009, all three of the defendants were aware of SOS signals Blackburn had stomped into the snow in the mountains surrounding Golden, British Columbia. On February 15, Blackburn and Fortin had decided to venture out of bounds to backcountry ski. They eventually got lost and at the time, they had only prepared for a day trip so they only had two granola bars, no water, no matches, no backcountry skiing equipment (climbing skins, avalanche transceivers, avalanche probes, avalanche shovels, backpacks, compass, GPS, radio, or mobile telephone), and only had what they were wearing to keep them warm and dry (Petrovics, 2011). Blackburn told officials that at one point he was following a riverbend and fell through into knee deep, freezing water and he had to keep wolves away while he and his wife awaited rescue. …show more content…

The resort then reported it to Golden Search and Rescue who didn’t launch a ground search due to no reports of overdue skiers and no evidence of anyone

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