There's a show on the outdoor network channel up here in Vancouver called "Survivor Man". He does just that. It's one of my fav shows. Worth checking if one can recieve it. -- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia. New! Dashboard removal vid: http://web.mac.com/tubaneil/iWeb/Site%205/Movie.html
On 2/2/07, Pensioner <al_knoll@pacbell.net> wrote: SNIP > > Long ago, my friend Bill skied a last run off the back of Mount Rose Ski > Area in a fog and wound up below the last chairlift thousands of feet above > the Carson Valley with just his skis, his ski apparel and a now out of date > lift ticket. He walked out to US395 after spending a very cold night in the > trees. Later that month, just outside a cozy ski cabin in Squaw Valley, I > tried Bill's trick and spent the night outside in the snow with just what I > would have been carrying had I been skiing. Sobering experience. Bill was > lucky, had the clouds gone away the temperature would have dropped > precipitously and he likely would have died of hypothermia. |
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