Maybe he should have used the snowshoes himself.
Seriously, he had snowshoes in the car?
Unless your extremely experienced AND PREPARED, in the mountains, never leave your car.
In a case like this he could have taken a tire off the car, or the spare, put some gas on it a started it on fire. Tires are very smokey and would have been seen very quickly.
That would be the mother of all smudge pots.
They were on vacation and headed towards a lodge. I looked at their web site a couple of days ago; seemed like the sort of place you might actually find a use for such things.
That would be easy..... until I ran out of cigarettes..
"In a case like this he could have taken a tire off the car, or the spare, put some gas on it a started it on fire."
The "BOOM" when the burning tire explodes would be a real attention-grabber, too. Might want to stand back, lol.
Thats a very good idea
THank you! I would not have thought of a tire fire.
Just told my husband about this and he said he wouldn't have been able to stay with the car,,he would have walked for help. Now maybe he will listen.
I'm watching the news conference. They did burn their tires. I guess the searchers were just looking in the wrong place when they were burning them.
The family did that. But the smoke wasn't seen by any of the trackers.
If you are ever going to try this trick, let the air out & cut the valve stem off.
Burning a pressurized tire is a great way to injured, maybe even seriously burned, out in the middle of nowhere with no medical help in sight.
Dude, you saw that on the I Should Be Alive special! :-)