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The call came in just before noon on Friday, Feb. 3 that a skier might be in trouble at Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort.
Members of the ski patrol, using precise GPS coordinates calculated by either a cellphone or an Apple watch, and forwarded to patrollers by police, skied to the spot on Variety Ridge near the top of the mountain.
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