When two snowmachiners found 52-year-old Otis Orth near Jake Lake -- not far from Petersville Road, west of Talkeetna and the Parks Highway -- on Monday afternoon, the Trapper Creek man was in bad shape. He had just spent a day and a half lying on the ice, unable to move after being thrown from his snowmachine while making a trip to bring supplies to his homestead. Orth's survival, and the very presence of the two men that found him, are both likely due not to fancy electronic search-and-rescue gear, but the loyalty of a 15-month-old golden retriever named Amber.
_________________________ "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more." -Dorothy, in The Wizard of Oz
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