Crews resumed searching this morning for 23-year-old Mount Bachelor ticket attendant Kate Svitek, who was last seen at noon on Saturday while snowboarding in the challenging terrain of Mount Bachelor's Northwest Territory. "There's not a lot of new news, except that our parking lot is packed with volunteers, said Carly Hogan, Mount Bachelor spokeswoman. "There are more fresh bodies, and more fresh search dogs out there today. "Hogan didn't have details early this morning about where crews would start searching, but she thought they would move higher up and more to the west.

By late Wednesday, 2 ½ days of helicopter searching, between 400 and 500 hours of manpower from Mount Bachelor staff per day, and between 500 and 700 hours of man and dog power per day from volunteers from Deschutes County, Lane County, Portland, Multnomah County failed to find the missing snowboarder. Helicopters were not expected to join the search today. "These search crews have their hearts and souls in it," Hogan said.

Svitek, from suburban Philadelphia, graduated from the University of Vermont in 2001 with a major in outdoor studies and a minor in eco-tourism. She participated in programs like Outward Bound and spent time in Patagonia in an outdoor leadership school. Searchers have said they believe she might have fallen into a hole and injured herself so she can't get out. "She's got the skills to keep herself together," Hogan said.