West Vancouver (BC), Canada – A Quebec snowboarder who spent three days in the North Vancouver mountains after wandering out of bounds from Cypress Mountain ski area in West Vancouver, will be receiving a $10,000 bill in the mail for his rescue.

Joffrey Koeman, Director of Sales & Marketing at Cypress Mountain, told Canada’s CTV that an example needs to be made of 33-year-old snowboarder Sebastien Boucher, a director of finance with the National Bank of Canada.  Boucher, originally from Ottawa and currently a resident of West Vancouver, was located Tuesday night by members of North Shore Rescue who spent 48 hours looking for him, their effort complicated by the fact that Boucher didn’t remain put.

Cypress Mountain staff and friends of Boucher joined North Shore Rescue in the search effort. Koeman told Canada’s CTV that Boucher flagrantly disregarded Cypress Mountain’s boundary signs, and that the search pulled staff away from the resort’s Sky Chair, leaving the lift idle for a day.

In a separate incident earlier this month, a backcountry skier died in a creek bed in an accident in Cypress Provincial Park adjacent to the ski area.