I guess the advice the Boy Scouts gave us for if we ever got really lost works. For starters you always plan ahead so that mountain rangers or some kind of emergency service knows when you’re going camping in their area. Stay on well traveled trails because you won’t get lost easy there, then if you are lost real bad just sit there. You get somewhere safe when you can and you do your best to treat your injuries, but then you wait to be found instead of wandering around and wasting energy making yourself harder to find. Making an SOS would help, but I don’t know if I’d remember to do that. If there’s not a search party coming for you the advice gets harder to follow, but all the stuff about orienteering and survival pales in comparison to the strategy of letting experts find you when possible.
I agree with doing more routes so we get our moneys worth out of this free book club, but it’s funny to pick the speedrun options the first time and just get picked up by helicopter before getting frostbite or anything bad.
It’s been a week since deciding to stay put. Plenty of time to set up a nice camp and wait out a rescue. Just as you’re kicking up your feet in camp to eat some fish you caught, you hear a helicopter. Yes!
The plan worked, you’re saved.
That was easy .
… wait…
why isn’t anyone in the helicopter? And it sounds more like the wind howling, or is that an animal. Confused, you stare into the sky
..
You wake up from a dream and groan. Of course such an idyllic rescue was too good to be true. After having recovered from the last trek down the valley, it seems you feel asleep. Looking around, you realise it’s time to get moving…
So these options are the ones we haven’t picked so far? I guess I’ll look back and see which ones seem interesting but not likely to get us killed or rescued too quickly. I remember there was one that might have led to a wild animal so maybe we try that one
Sorry for pinging everyone, it was one of the first things I thought of when I read that our early and miraculous rescue was all a dream.
We go back to where the animal was and peak around a big boulder. Woah! A puma! And she’s looking right at us . We start backing away slowly, showing no weakness.
Can we make it out of this scrape alive? Only one way to find out. See you at (once you get there, you’ll see this sends us to 23, where we’ve been, so then take 67 to get to the next decision point)
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極寒の雪山 Escape 
Wait… is that a puma? 
I’ll read the section tonight. This week got away from me a bit.
Sorry. I remember seeing this weeks poll for it but I haven’t gotten to it either 
will try reading tonight then.
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