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# The Road Back
- URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/the-road-back/
- Published: 2014-03-06T09:30:19.000Z
- Updated: 2014-10-14T02:05:03.000Z
- Author: Matt Enlow
- Tags: Adventures, post, avalanche, swedes, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43

> "Once again, I seem to have proven that having a doctoral degree does not necessarily mean that you are smart." 
> 
> \-[The Hungry Hen | The Road Back, one foot in front of the other](http://hungryhen.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/the-road-back-one-foot-in-front-of-the-other/?ref=blog.novaugust.net "the-road-back-one-foot-in-front-of-the-other/")  
> A few weeks ago, my [good](https://blog.novaugust.net/my-own-private-wyoming-or-so-i-wish-the-hungry-hen-report/ "My own private Wyoming, or so I wish. | The Hungry Hen Report") [friends](https://blog.novaugust.net/hungry-hen/ "Hungry Hen at Disappointment Peak") [Martin](https://blog.novaugust.net/disappointment-peak/ "Disappointment Peak") [and](https://blog.novaugust.net/across-from-two-oceans/ "Across From Two Oceans") [Andrea](https://blog.novaugust.net/shadow-peak/ "Shadow Peak") were caught in a huge avalanche back in Sweden. The news made its way across the Atlantic slowly and via Bing Translate.
> 
> This vague post by Martin was the first thing I saw.
> 
> [![viarok](http://www.novaugust.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/viarok.jpg)](http://www.novaugust.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/viarok.jpg?ref=blog.novaugust.net)
> 
> Why wouldn't they be fine?
> 
> I feel like there was a bit of a scramble to unearth what that cryptic message could mean. We found comments (in Swedish) linking to a (Swedish) news article. This time, it was Google Translate that came through, and we found out about a large avalanche and the three skiers that were caught in it.
> 
> Keep in mind that, when the numbers say you should have just as well died, fine is a relative term. But they did make it.
> 
> Read about it over on Andrea's blog, [The Hungry Hen | NOT SO MUCH KICKING, BUT ALIVE – THE KITTELFJÄLL AVALANCHE 2014](http://hungryhen.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/not-so-much-kicking-but-alive-the-kittelfjall-avalanche-2014/?ref=blog.novaugust.net "Not so much kicking, but alive"), and Martin has a recounting of events [through his eyes](http://smaertin.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/kittelfjall-16th-of-february-through-my-eyes/?ref=blog.novaugust.net "Kittelfjäll 16th of February, through my eyes") on his blog as well.
> 
> Andrea followed it up with two posts (so far) on [the road](http://hungryhen.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/the-road-back-episode-i/?ref=blog.novaugust.net) [to recovery](http://hungryhen.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/the-road-back-one-foot-in-front-of-the-other/?ref=blog.novaugust.net).
> 
> Yay for best friends not dying!