At about 11am yesterday, Jon got off the lift at Crow's Nest to sample the fresh powder of the recent Tahoe blizzard. Skier's left at the top of Crow’s is the eastern boundary of Sugar Bowl Resort. Sometimes people like to dip under the boundary just a little, and then dip back in. The powder is always fluffier, deeper, and steeper on the other side? On previous days, Jon had dipped under that line, albeit further down the run. Therein lay the potentially fatal mistake. If you dip under the left boundary at the very top, you can never ski back in; you have bought yourself a forty-mile hike to the town of Auburn. According to Jon, from the start the problem was hubris. He was sure if he kept riding and turning right that the ski area would appear shortly. By the time he stopped and looked at the map, he had dropped about 300 vertical meters below the resort. His GPS and maps were spotty and he was distrustful that they were accurate. After reaching Onion Creek bottom he start