Adam Putnam, 36, and his fiancee, Rachel Fehl, 30, spent three days in the outback near Ski Sante Fe ski resort in New Mexico after they got lost while hunting powder. Worker searched for them for three days, but the conditions were too stormy.
. . . the couple . . . slept on pine boughs in snow caves. They had a backpack hydration system with them that they filled with snow and stuffed into their clothing to melt. . . A rescue helicopter spotted the couple waving their hands near the top of Little Tesuque Peak, Anglada said. “They had stamped out SOS in the snow with their feet,” Anglada said.
Sounds like they were dumb enough to get lost, but smart enough to survive.
[Link: Associated Press]
