CARRABASSETT VALLEY

The Maine Warden Service reported this morning it had located a Massachusetts skier missing since Sunday.

Nicholas Joy, 17, of Medford, Mass., was found this morning at approximately 9 a.m. He was located alive and well on the Caribou Pond Road — a winter snowmobile trail — on the West side of the mountain.

Joy was being transported to the hospital for evaluation. He was located by a snowmobiler, Joseph Paul, of Massachusetts. Paul was not part of the search party.

Dozens of searchers combed western Maine’s Sugarloaf ski mountain throughout Monday for Joy, who disappeared during a family ski outing.

Joy was reported missing Sunday afternoon after failing to meet up with his father, Maine Warden Service spokesman Doug Rafferty said.

The Sugarloaf ski patrol, game wardens and others searched in-bounds and out-of-bounds areas on skis, snowshoes and snowmobiles late Sunday afternoon and into the night before the search was suspended at 1 a.m. Monday because of poor visibility.

The search resumed at first light and continued until dark, when the search was suspended until morning, said Rafferty. The Warden Service did not use a plane during the search because of windy conditions.

Joy skied with his father, Robert, in the morning and was last seen near the Timberline chairlift that reaches the top of the mountain.

Joy and his father split up and took separate trails from the top, and the father called for help when his son later failed to meet up with him, wardens said.