The two skiers from San Francisco who went missing Saturday near Lake Tahoe were found by the rescue team on Monday morning, according to authorities. The two survived the two nights huddled up in snow caves eating energy bars.

Patrick Frost, 35, a sales account executive for the San Jose Sharks, and Christopher Gerwig, 32, a sous chef at a San Francisco restaurant, were found by a helicopter from the Placer County Sheriff's Department around 10:40 a.m. on Monday ten miles from the Alpine Meadows ski resort, west of Lake Tahoe, near a place called Upper Hell Hole Reservoir.

The two skiers said that they went on top of the mountain and wanting to go down, they’ve left the ski boundaries without even knowing because of the snow which fell heavily on Saturday and Sunday in that region.

They wanted to ski down Estelle Bowl and meet their friends at the bottom, but the storm dropped about 2 feet of snow and covered everything. 

Gerwig said: "It was such a whiteout you couldn't see 15 feet in front of you," San Francisco Chronicle.

He said that they thought they were still on the ski boundary.

“We never saw a sign or a rope line, which is what you usually see if you're out of bounds, but it was such a whiteout we could have passed it and not seen it. Turns out we had already gone down drainage. By then, we never could have climbed back up,” Gerwig added.  

The two managed to build a snow cave and shelter for the night and had three energy bars with them from which they took small bites occasionally. They’ve drank snow melted in plastic bags and they’ve tried to stay hydrated and dry as much as possible they could.

Frost said: "We never ever considered giving up. We were going to make it," Associated Press reports.

When they’ve realized they were out of the ski boundaries and that they were lost, they’ve decided to follow a waterway leading to a reservoir. That’s when the helicopter spotted them.

The two men were taken to the Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital where they were treated for minor frostbite to their toes and afterwards were released.

A dozen relatives and friends surrounded the men at the Placer County sheriff's office in Auburn.

Lindsey Dazel, 29, Frost's fiancée, was among them. The two set their wedding date on October 4.

She said: "We might do it sooner. Just to say, 'I love you, you're mine.' "