Introduction • Making Mistakes • Preventing the Survival Situation • Learn to Survive by Yourself • Why You Make the Team Stronger • Make a Survival "Vest" • Wearing Your Survival Gear • Redundancy in Equipment • Prepositioned Survival Equipment • The Importance of a Daypack • A Strong Snow Shovel • Weapons • Knife • Compass • Tools • Strobe Lights that Kids Use as Toys • Setting Survival Priorities • Steps to Survival • Find Shelter • Considerations for Emergency Shelters • Igloos • Snow Caves • Deep Snow Pack Shelters • Shallow Snow Pack Shelters • Trench Shelter • Tree Well Shelter • Lean To Shelter • Tarp Igloo Shelters • Bivouac Strategies for Hut Skiers • Finding Water • Regrouping Psychologically • A Psychological Lesson • Humor • Objectivity • Ingenuity • Patience • Hope • Using Your Mind to Stay Warm • Surviving as a Team • Stay Together • Cultivate Teamwork • Making a Fire on the Snow • Butane Lighters • Flint • Signaling for Help • Alert/Locate Principles • SOS • Snow Pattern Ground to Air Signaling • Mirror Signaling • Daylight Smoke Signaling • Satellite Rescue Strobes • Using Your Headlamp as a Beacon • Cellular Phone Use Tent Coloring • Clothing Coloring • Importance of a Whistle • Preparing for Rescue • Rescue by Air • Helicopter Precautions • Preparing a Landing Zone
Rescue by Ground • Conclusion