Sisters survive on Chapstick
Their snowboarding adventure turns into a life-or death situation.
Scripps Howard News Service
LOVELAND PASS, Colo. -- Two sisters survived a night shivering in a snow cave, singing to keep each other awake and munching on raspberry Chapstick. Their rescue earlier this week, they said, was "a life-changing
experience." A search team in a Flight for Life helicopter located Jennie and Martha Councell, ages 20 and 16, about 8:30 a.m. about one mile north of Loveland Pass. The helicopter was nearly out of fuel when Alpine
Rescue team member Mike Everist spotted an "SOS" that the two Aurora, Colo., sisters had tramped onto the snow. As she heard the helicopter pass overhead, Jennie Councell burst out of the snow cave the two sisters
had dug with their snowboards. "It was the greatest feeling to know that they had found us and we're not going to die," she said. "I was dancing and laughing and jumping up and down." The rescue capped an overnight search in which 60 volunteers scoured the windswept pass where the sisters had disappeared while
snowboarding. "I'm just happy that I didn't have to bury two daughters," Dan lCouncell said shortly before they were discharged from the Summit Medical Center in Frisco, Colo. Both women suffered minor frostbite but no serious injury. "We were so cold. We just wanted to go to sleep and not wake up," Martha Countell said. "That's a scary feeling.''
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Hoodoo
I get some pleasure from finding a relentlessly peaceful use for a combative looking knife.
JKM
Their snowboarding adventure turns into a life-or death situation.
Scripps Howard News Service
LOVELAND PASS, Colo. -- Two sisters survived a night shivering in a snow cave, singing to keep each other awake and munching on raspberry Chapstick. Their rescue earlier this week, they said, was "a life-changing
experience." A search team in a Flight for Life helicopter located Jennie and Martha Councell, ages 20 and 16, about 8:30 a.m. about one mile north of Loveland Pass. The helicopter was nearly out of fuel when Alpine
Rescue team member Mike Everist spotted an "SOS" that the two Aurora, Colo., sisters had tramped onto the snow. As she heard the helicopter pass overhead, Jennie Councell burst out of the snow cave the two sisters
had dug with their snowboards. "It was the greatest feeling to know that they had found us and we're not going to die," she said. "I was dancing and laughing and jumping up and down." The rescue capped an overnight search in which 60 volunteers scoured the windswept pass where the sisters had disappeared while
snowboarding. "I'm just happy that I didn't have to bury two daughters," Dan lCouncell said shortly before they were discharged from the Summit Medical Center in Frisco, Colo. Both women suffered minor frostbite but no serious injury. "We were so cold. We just wanted to go to sleep and not wake up," Martha Countell said. "That's a scary feeling.''
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Hoodoo
I get some pleasure from finding a relentlessly peaceful use for a combative looking knife.
JKM
