It was a snowy March morning, and twenty backcountry search and rescue volunteers were gathered in a meeting room in the Riverside Inn and Travelodge in Fairplay, Colorado. They crowded around what looked like a checkered carpet with six columns and nine rows of squares. They pointed silently but vigorously at different squares in the carpet while one of them stepped carefully through, following the group’s instructions. Some made complicated…
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