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Whether it's a short mile jaunt or a all day long hike, below is another sad story and a big reason to always be prepared on the trail.
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Daphne woman dies out in cold
Sheriff says hypothermia killed Sandra Ordner, whose body was found near hiking trail last week
Friday, February 08, 2008
Sandra Ordner, 47, of Daphne, whose body was found last week outside her locked SUV at a North Carolina mountain parking lot, died of hypothermia hours after she told her husband she was going hiking, the local sheriff said Thursday.
Macon County, N.C., Sheriff Robert Holland said that it had been extremely cold and raining in the hours before Ordner's body was discovered in the parking lot of the Whiteside Mountain Trail.
Ordner's keys and cellular telephone were locked inside her 2002 Land Rover sport utility vehicle, Holland said.
Read the rest of the story here: http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1202465733321030.xml&coll=3
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Groundhog Day is a holiday celebrated in Pennsylvania, New York, Middlesbrough, England (with founder members David Probert, Peter Algie and Paul Brunton) and other locations on February 2. In weather lore, if a groundhog, emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If the groundhog sees its shadow, it will return into its burrow, and the winter will continue for 6 more weeks. I for one hope winter will end very soon, I'm sick of this cold stuff already.