5 Essential Winter Survival Skills

        Winter is when the training wheels come off for hikers, climbers, and back-country skiers. When all of the planning and preparation you did before your trip won’t help you get out of the jam you’re in. When your buddy hits his head on a tree skiing down a back-country route or a big chunk of falling ice takes out your belayer.
                                           
      When you fall through an ice ledge on a river soaking your winter boots and clothes or a whiteout smothers the peak you’re climbing and a winter storm blows in. When circumstances are so out of control, that you can only survive with what’s in your pack, the knowledge in your head, and the resources you can scrounge from your surrounding environment.

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