3 mushers missing in northern Manitoba storm

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Three mushers including a teenager travelling by vehicle to a remote dog sled racefrom the northern Manitoba city of Thompsonhave not been heard from in the past 36 hours as blizzard conditions continue sweeping throughthe area.

"It's just scary," Pam Froelich told CBC News Wednesday. "Lots of other dog mushers have tried calling them and there's no answer. They haven't been on theirFacebookor anything."

Her 14-year-old son,Ryley Froelich, left Thompson with two adult mushers and roughly 30 dogs on Monday evening to drive to the dog sled race in Brochet.

The group is travelling in a green truck and have not been seen or heard from since their departure, Froelich said. She said she doesn't believe there is cell service in the area.

More than 40 centimetres of snow has fallen on the Thompson region since Monday. Winds continue to gust 80-90 km/h.

The familyhad received word that someone on a snowmobilespotted several vehicles stranded on a highway outside of Leaf Rapids on Tuesday.Froelich said local RCMPofficers went out on Skidoos to follow up but werehampered by the blizzard conditions.

"They couldn't make it more than fivekilometres out of Leaf Rapids," she said. "They had to turn around because they couldn't see anything. It was too stormy."

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