Get up In Super-Deep Snow

Remember that commercial with the old lady shouting, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”? Well, take a digger in bottomless powder and you’ll know what she was yelling about. But unlike Granny, you don’t have an emergency button to press for help. Instead, take your poles and lay them in an X on the snow surface. If you’re wearing a pack, lay it on top of the X. Then push off the center of the cross (or the pack) and stand up.