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.

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On 2/2/07, Pensioner <al_knoll@pacbell.net> wrote:

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>
> 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 the Carson Valley with just his skis, his ski apparel and a now out of date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.