[MtnGoat]

[Malachai Constant]

Now that's using your ...... aw forget it

[Captain Trips]

Another good reason to carry 60 bottles of beer in your car. In this case, Bud light might be a good idea, versus a car full of Guiness. Snoqualmie could use 10 ft of snow in 24 hours !

[MtnGoat]

can you imagine what it must have smelled like in that car?

[Backpacker Joe]

[Slugman]

A lesser man would have just poured the beer onto the snow to melt it. He is a true hero IMO.

[WhiteJacket]

[Backpacker Joe]

[solohiker]

[jenjen]

[Slugman]

Jen: Exactly. He had the party spirit. But his story is a lie in my opinion. He drank enough to get drunk, and poured the rest out in the snow, or maybe the whole story is phony, and he was drunk in the first place. It does make a good story, though. Solo: But as far as his body warming the beer, the human body has only a certain amount of heat it can generate, and if that was enough to melt yourself out of an avalanche, then people trapped under snow could just strip naked and melt their way out. But they can't. And the snow or ice would re-freeze in between urinations the way this guy said he did it. Also, beer has alcohol in it, and that would make even cold beer an effective anti-freeze. That would offset the temperature gains from passing it through the body, which would remove the alcohol. But the main reason pouring the beer out would work and urination wouldn't is that all the beer could be poured out in a couple of minutes, preventing re-freezing, but it would take many hours to urinate it out. So, judged as a physics problem, his "solution" ( no pun intended) is implausible.

[mgd]

While I think the story is false, I think the method holds promise. Remember, beer has calories. You are fueling your body and and warming the beer in the process. The snow melts and you get a little river running under the glacier. Eventually you have an ice cave, and, your exit to freedom. How many days would it take though? How long could you survive on beer alone? Pizza is one of the most perfect foods for nutrition I thought I read somewhere. Beer, it would seem, without cheese, tomatos, and pepperoni, would be significantly less than perfect... There is probably a formula for how often you should drink the beer, etc, to escape. I would call it the Formula of Freedom.

[Slugman]

Beer's calories are in the alcohol mainly, with some sugar as well. By drinking the beer, you are removing the alcohol, "nature's perfect anti-freeze". And you also fail to account for the "all-at-once" effect. You could warm many of the beers by just putting them inside your jacket, and then get the warmth, alcohol and the "all at once" effect working for you simultaneously. Then drink a bunch of them just for the fun of it.

[mgd]

That warmth does not come free. Your body loses calories warming the cool beer, and those calories are not replaced if you don't drink it.

[Dayhike Mike]