wrote:

Matt Whiting wrote:

I know that is the standard advice, but I'm not sure I could follow it
for more than a day or two. Personally, I'd rather die trying than die
sitting waiting on someone who may never come.



I know what you're saying Matt, but I don't think I've ever heard of
anybody dying in their car when they got stuck. I'm sure there's a
couple of cases, but from all the stories I've heard in our general
area (you're in Montrose right?) the vast majority of exposure deaths
were when people left a protective shelter.

No, I'm from northern PA. Around here we have about as many people die
from CO in their car than from leaving and hiking out. Granted, we have
few places as remote as the mountains of the west, however, we do have
many places where you can be 20 miles from civilization. Just look at
the Detroit sectional in and around Bradford PA.

Matt