In January we had our only snowstorm of the year.  We got 3 feet in one night (It melted in about 4 days).  I was at my friend's place, but I knew my mom was worried about the storm and wanted me home.  It was around 9, so I figured I'd go.  At this point, it had been snowing pretty hard.  There was already a foot of snow on the ground.  Then I found out that the shuttle service had shut down.  My buddies place is about a mile away from the top of the mountain, so I figured I'd just walk up there and use something as a sled to slide down to the lodge.  Well I took some wrong turns while walking up to the mountain.  Next thing I know I'm in the middle of the woods.  My sense of direction was awful.  It was snowing so hard that my visibility was poor.  I was wading through wais deep snow trying to find my way out.  At this point I'm freaking out cause I was freezing my ass off.  And my clothes/hair were wet cause I was in my friend's hot tub before I left.  I figured I should find a spot to build a shelter.  I wandered for like 20 minutes before I found an opening in the forest.  I walked out to it, and I sunk about a foot into the water.  I had walked out onto some water.  My foot was stuck.  I was breaking the ice and sloshing water around.  I was flailing in survival mode.  I freed my foot and got to the shore.  At this point I am loosing my mind and attempting to run through the snow, but it's like trying to run through a lake of maple syrup.  At this point I had been lost for about 2 hours.  But then I saw a structure of some sort.  I "swam" towards it.  There I saw a snowcat driver refueling the cat.  I approached him and told him my story.  He was a homie and gave me a ride down to the lodge.   I was safe now, but the shuttles were still shut down.  So I was stuck at the lodge with about 25 drunk people, luckily my 2 friends were also there.  We walked into the hotel, and found a random room open.  We slept in there for a little before the owner came in and kicked us out.  Shuttle service resumed at 4 in the morning.  Slept for 4 hours then skied pow the next day.