>The adventure begins:
You and your pilot, Jake McKay, are flying over the Canadian Rockies when the engine begins to sputter. Suddenly you're caught in a blinding snow squall. What seemed like a beautiful spring day has turned into a wintry nightmare.
"We're going down!" Jake cries.

Jake is able to set the plane down on a smooth grassy area just at the timberline. It hits the ground hard, bounces once, and slides into a grove of stunted pine trees. The left wing smashes against a tree, and the plane spins wildly around, then suddenly stops.

Fortunately you are not hurt, just shaken up a bit — but Jake's ankle seems to be sprained. He can't put any weight on it. To make matters worse, the radio stopped working on impact.

The two of you huddle down in your seats. Jake has wrapped his injured ankle in a red plaid scarf. afraid we were pretty far off course," he says, his eyes scanning the map. "Our only hope is for you to make it to that ranger station we saw on the way in. I'd say it's about nine miles east of here. It looked abandoned from the air, but if it's like most of the stations in this area, it's stocked with canned food and an emergency radio transmitter."