Jan 19, 2014 6:45 PM by MTN News - Kalispell

TROY - Cameron Mitchell Goins of Libby died Saturday morning after crashing his snowmobile in the Keeler Creek area southwest of Troy while on the way to a training exercise.

Lincoln County Undersheriff Brent Faulkner says that Goins, 47, passed away after he drifted off a snowmobile trail and hit a tree.

Goins, along with a group of other snowmobilers, were headed up the Keeler Creek drainage toward an avalanche training area when the crash happened. Goins was wearing a helmet.

Members of David Thompson Search and Rescue and CANAM Search and Rescue were taking part in a joint avalanche preparedness training exercise in the Bear Mountain area on Saturday.

The joint training also involved members of search and rescue teams from Sanders County, Montana, and Boundary County, Idaho, along with personnel from the U.S. Forest Service and other volunteer members of the community.

Troy dispatchers were told of the accident at 9:50 a.m., and were that told medically trained personnel already at the scene of the accident had requested an air ambulance response and began CPR on the patient.

The Alert Helicopter of Kalispell was launched to respond, while the Troy Volunteer Ambulance and Advance Life Support personnel responded to the scene from Troy.

An ALS member was transported up the drainage by snowmobile to meet the patient, but Goins was declared dead at 10:33 a.m.

Lincoln County Sheriff Roby Bowe responded to the scene with Detective Nate Scofield. U.S. Forest Service investigators also responded to the scene.

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