[at-l] homemade snowshoes

[m_factor@hotmail.com (Mara Factor)]

March of '93 but it was in the Smokies.

There was also a school group that holed up in one of the shelters for a few 
days and a few other random groups out there.  Lot's of folks rescued by 
helicopter.  I remember because I was planning an April trip at the time.

The April trip was great, though rainy, and a friend an I ended up rescuing 
a family of unprepared hikers heading up Leconte.  Most, but not all, of the 
snow had melted by the time we got there.

Of course, there might have been a similar episode somewhere in VA...

Mara


>From: Pat Villeneuve <patv@ukans.edu>
>To: at-l@backcountry.net
>Subject: [at-l] homemade snowshoes
>Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 10:40:05 -0500
>
>Does anyone rememer the story? Some years ago (well, within the last 10,
>I think), there was a terrible blizzard in Va-jan-ya. A hiker was known
>to be lost, snowbound for days. When rescuers finally made it in, they
>discovered that he had broken into a cabin and made snowshoes from what
>he could find there.
>
>Sound familiar at all?...
>Give Me Chocolate

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