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# Snowmachiners rescued from Sunshine Mountain
- URL: https://ktna.org/snowmachiners-rescued-from-sunshine-mountain/
- Published: 2011-02-10T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-02-10T09:00:00.000Z
- Description: A search and rescue mission had a good ending when Talkeetna troopers successfully found three lost snowmachiners from Houston who were out riding their machines east of Yoder Road.
- Author: GM
- Tags: Local News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 01:28

A search and rescue mission had a good ending when Talkeetna troopers successfully found three lost snowmachiners from Houston who were out riding their machines east of Yoder Road.Yesterday around 5:30 pm the snowmachiners called the troopers, saying that they were lost and that they started to get cold. Talkeetna wildlife trooper Dan Valentine and a team of two volunteers went out to look for David Smith, age 36, James Blanchard, age 43, and Eugene Yancey, age 39, all from Houston.

They found them around 9:30 at night on Sunshine Mountain. The three snowmachiners were unharmed and were escorted back to their vehicle.