Man rescued from deep snow, cold
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Sgt. Dave Pond and Brett Miller of Warfighter Outfitters came to the aid of a man who was stranded in deep snow in the forest near Camp Sherman.\f0\fs24 \cf0 photo provided
With the snow piling high and temperatures plunging well below zero on Sunday night, a man camping at high elevation in the forest near Camp Sherman decided he had better get out.
“He’d been fairly prepared,” Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Manager Sgt. Dave Pond told The Nugget on Monday. “He was there during the initial snowstorm. He’d finally had enough and was running out of supplies and he thought ‘I’d better leave.’ I believe it was -12 degrees last night where he was at.”
The man, in his mid-30s, tried to drive out in his truck but got stuck in a deep snowdrift. He was able to call 911 and Sgt. Pond responded. The sergeant tapped Brett Miller of the veterans assistance organization Warfighter Outfitters for assistance. Miller, who lives in Camp Sherman, used his Jeep to get himself and Sgt. Pond to the location where the man was camped.
Pond and Miller transported the man out of the woods unharmed and left him in Camp Sherman.
“He has family there, so that’s where we took him,” Pond said.
Anyone traveling in winter conditions, regardless of how short the planned excursion, should plan for adverse conditions and be prepared with emergency supplies and equipment.
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