02-06-2019, 04:37 AM
It is all about being prepared and learning to prepare. We camped every month of the year when I was a scout. We learned how to stay warm. I remember some winter camps when the raw eggs would freeze solid in the shell. Bringing a sleeping pad is part of the learning curve. We would generally bring a couple of bales of straw, put down a ground cloth, then the straw, then another ground cloth. We slept warm and dry.
Drove up to Bear Lake early one winter day to ice fish. Logan canyon highway was closed at the mouth of the canyon, so, we drove around thru Mink Creek and into Montpelier and then to Bear Lake. Long trip, but we made it. Found out that Logan canyon highway had been closed due to a rescue operation going on at about Peter Sinks. Seems a scout troop had gone up and dug into a snow drift to spend the night. One of the leaders chose to sleep in his truck instead of the snow cave. He woke up in the middle of the night to a rumbling. The entrance to the snow cave collapsed and trapped the scouts inside. He contacted the rescue team which came up the canyon to dig out the boys. The highway was closed during the operation. All turned out well. Seems the scouts were sound asleep all night and were unaware of the cave in. They awoke to being poked with probes from the rescue team probing in the drift trying to locate the troop. They must have had a large cave to not run out of oxygen or they had some vents that didn't get plugged. Anyway, it was a happy ending instead of a tragedy. As I remember, kentofnsl was on that trip with us. I will let him tell the rest of the story about the two guys that came to visit us and crossed the pressure ridge. [
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Drove up to Bear Lake early one winter day to ice fish. Logan canyon highway was closed at the mouth of the canyon, so, we drove around thru Mink Creek and into Montpelier and then to Bear Lake. Long trip, but we made it. Found out that Logan canyon highway had been closed due to a rescue operation going on at about Peter Sinks. Seems a scout troop had gone up and dug into a snow drift to spend the night. One of the leaders chose to sleep in his truck instead of the snow cave. He woke up in the middle of the night to a rumbling. The entrance to the snow cave collapsed and trapped the scouts inside. He contacted the rescue team which came up the canyon to dig out the boys. The highway was closed during the operation. All turned out well. Seems the scouts were sound asleep all night and were unaware of the cave in. They awoke to being poked with probes from the rescue team probing in the drift trying to locate the troop. They must have had a large cave to not run out of oxygen or they had some vents that didn't get plugged. Anyway, it was a happy ending instead of a tragedy. As I remember, kentofnsl was on that trip with us. I will let him tell the rest of the story about the two guys that came to visit us and crossed the pressure ridge. [
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