Cousins survive using trapping skills, body spray after being stranded in northern Saskatchewan
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Three cousins used their trapping skills to survive after their snowmobiles became bogged down in slush on a northern Saskatchewan lake.
Thomas Barnett looked to the dark sky and prayed. He prayed for wood and to stay awake despite signs of hypothermia creeping through his body.
He prayed to see the morning sun and feel its heat. He prayed for a snowmobile or helicopter to rescue him and his two cousins stranded on a northern Saskatchewan lake.
“I prayed more that night than I probably did since I was 10 years old,” Barnett told The Canadian Press.
About two days earlier, Barnett, a 33-year-old lawyer based in Prince Rupert, B.C., had flown to Saskatchewan to visit his family’s traditional trapline with his cousins. He is from the Lac La Ronge Indian Band.
Ron Hyggen, 43, lives in Saskatoon but grew up learning to live on the land at a cabin on the northern end of Triveet Lake, north of La Ronge. Julian Herman, 33, who lives in Prince Albert, Sask., completed the trio.
The three cousins had the right gear to stay warm and fed for the long weekend in February. They had a satellite communication device to call for help in case of danger.
They left another cousin’s Henry Ratt’s cabin early on the Friday. The lake ice was thick as Hyggen led the way on one snowmobile and Barnett and Herman followed on another.
Hyggen noticed the change in the snow first. It was turning into deep slush. He sped up and barely made it through.
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