Skier lost in New York doesn’t know how he got to CaliforniaAP, updated on February 14, 2018
https://www.boston.com/sports/skiing/2018/02/14/missing-skier-new-york-californiaWILMINGTON, N.Y. (AP) — Police on Wednesday were trying to piece together how a 49-year-old skier whose disappearance sparked a massive search on a snowy New York mountainside ended up six days later in California, confused and still in ski clothes.
Toronto firefighter Constantinos ‘‘Danny’’ Filippidis told investigators he doesn’t know what happened after he was reported missing Wednesday, Feb. 7, from Whiteface Mountain during an annual ski trip with colleagues. The search ended Tuesday when Filippidis turned up in Sacramento, California, some 2,500 miles west of the Adirondacks.
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Filippidis told deputies he remembered little, but thought he’d suffered a head injury, rode in a ‘‘big rig-style truck’’ and slept ‘‘a lot,’’ Sgt. Shaun Hampton of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department told the Post-Standard of Syracuse.
Filippidis said he bought an iPhone to call his wife and told deputies that a truck dropped him off in downtown Sacramento, where he got a haircut, Hampton said.
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