An IDAHO GRAVITY TRAP tripped and nearly caught two snowmobilers this week in Boise County, Idaho.

http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-dec0507-survivor_story.6f147085.html

There are many lessons for those that venture into the serious outdoors.

The only equipment that this couple really had was "LUCK".

Normally all die up here depending on a cell phone.

Well, at least that "gravity trap" didn't have punji stakes in it...

I think this ordeal just reinforces the need to be prepared, Murphy is always out there, it doesn't matter if we're just going to the store 5 min from the house, half day snowmobile trip or an extended hike, things can and do happen. At least they had a cell phone,and I'm sure there is plenty of room on a snowmobile for a emergency kit, if they would have only thought to bring one. I think everyone at one point in their life has fallen into the trap (I'm only going here or there and nothing is going to happen) but with all the natural & man made disasters, lost hikers, stranded cars etc. that are in the news lately, that people would start taking more precautions.

What is a "gravity trap?"

Snow mobilers are often some of the worse offenders. They drive out expecting to drive back.
Remember Rulon Jones? I think one of the Foyts of racing legend also had a survival ordeal because of a failed machine and no survival preparation.
Bill

I used to do insurance quotes for snow machines (in addition to quads and motorcycles) and once in a while a wrecked sled would come in with 6 pack rings in the under seat storage or glove box...insurance adjusters LOVED those finds.

Thanks. I had never heard that term before.

I like how a link on the page is to another snowmobiling couple's "story of survival."

THE PILOT PEAK GRAVITY TRAP

Open acme mapper and input the peaks coordinates

http://mapper.acme.com/
N 43.95983 W 115.68655

Now go north down the trail to -

N 43.95983 W 115.68655

Switch back and forth between "HYBRID" and "TOPO"-

Sled failure-
Exhausted-
Easier to go down hill-
Think you will hit a road-
The "GRAVITY TRAP HAS SPRUNG"-

Few humans are capable of hiking down that drainage and come out at LOWMAN.