A football coach and two of his assistants were on a recruiting trip when their single-engine airplane sputtered and crashed in the mountains.

The three coaches climbed out of a snowbank and immediately proved their resourcefulness. They drained a bit of gasoline out of the fuselage and started a fire.

Later, when they got thirsty, they put a bit of snow in a twisted piece of metal and melted it to make drinking water.

A few days later, dying of hunger, they ripped strips from the leather seats, dipped them in motor oil, and fried them up like bacon for a nourishing treat.

The people up the street in the Hilton all admitted it was the most amazing thing they had ever seen.

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