5th in the Series of 5 – Life Coaching
By Dr. Mike Brooks
For most people, a sense of survival and hope is a very important part of surviving! When traveling from Wisconsin to hunt with friends in the Colorado mountains a few years ago, we were caught in a blizzard and became lost when trying to navigate back down the mountain at night. I was scared and had to act. I knew if I didn’t, I surely would have died in the White River National Forest. Eventually my buddy Mark and I made it through the night and wandered for several hours in a horizontal snow and wind storm. We eventually made it back to our original camp where we started with the lean-to barely visible. The sun was up by then, so I decided to head down the mountain once again to get help. I had hypothermia and was fading fast. I fell several times in waist deep snow as the incline got steeper as I headed down the side of the mountain. At one point, I looked behind me and wondered how I even got to where I was. At one point I can remember tumbling down and free falling several feet off of rocky ledges, and bouncing down until I came to a stop.
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