She Fell Through Frozen Creek and Skied Twelve Miles to Survival
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She Fell Through Frozen Creek and Skied Twelve Miles to Survival
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She survived five nights in open country with a core temperature of 91.4°F, ten toes intact, and temperatures that never rose above -14°F-an outcome rescuers called impossible. How did a methodical 48-year-old earth science teacher, with no winter survival gear, end up twelve miles and the wrong direction from her car after breaking through refrozen creek ice?
In this episode, we follow the reconstructed timeline of what happened between December 7 and December 12, 2009, and trace the few details that ultimately led searchers to her. What forced Jean Nelson onto an unmarked trapper route and across breaking ice that did not appear on current trail maps?
Person: Jean Nelson
Date: December 7-12, 2009
Location: Sawback Drainage between Otter Bend and the Pedersen cabin
Finder: April Barrett
Core temperature: 91.4 °F
- Jean Nelson was 48 years old and had been backcountry skiing for 11 years.
- Her car was found at Vanner Creek trailhead on Forest Service Road 41, 11 miles northeast of Briar Falls.
- Temperatures during her five nights outside never rose above -14 °F and were -31 °F the morning her car was found.
- Search teams initially searched a nine-mile corridor northeast to the Boundary Lake warming hut for two days with no sign.
- A hand-annotated topographic map borrowed from Frank Pearce three weeks earlier showed a winter trapper route that led 12 miles west and ultimately to the broken, refrozen creek where she fell through.
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