Low visibility and an expected snowstorm caused search crews to call off Sunday afternoon's search for Kate Svitek, a 22-year-old snowboarder missing for more than one week on Mount Bachelor. Searchers were expected to scour the mountain again today.

Crews had nothing new to report as of Sunday, according to Chris Nolte, director of Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue.
"If you look at it statistically, we don't want to take it down to zero hope, but there's a slim chance, probability-wise (that she's alive)," he said.
Saturday, about 100 people helped search for Svitek, and on Sunday, 50 people helped comb the mountaintop. At all of Mount Bachelor's ski lifts Sunday, posters made by Svitek's parents read, "Have you seen our daughter?" One photo showed her hiking.

At the summit on Sunday, search crews fought 10-foot-visibility conditions and the threat of more snow in the evening. "Survivability has pretty much reached rock bottom," Nolte said. County detectives are also investigating the possibility Svitek is no longer in the area, but Nolte said they have no evidence that would lead them to believe Svitek is no longer there.