Three groups of snowmobilers spent a cold and wet night in the backcountry near Whistler.
RCMP say nine snowmobilers in three groups spent Sunday night out in the Brandywine area after rapidly-changing weather conditions reduced visibility to zero.
Police say the groups decided to hunker down and were all equipped to do so.
“It was just one of those things that started out a beautiful sunny day and went to white out conditions like that,” said sledder Stewart Routledge.
“If you can’t see you’re going to hurt yourself if you keep going,” added sledder Dave Mann.
At least one of the groups was equipped with a satellite tracker system.
Police and search and rescue volunteers located the sledders midday, and by Monday evening they had all been returned to safety.
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