Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
The Blue Mountains presented the most severe physical challenge of the journey.
The mountains rise to elevations of more than 8,000 feet in places, and in January of a Pleistocene-climate year, the snow depths would have been substantial.
The accounts mention nine days of particularly severe travel through snow drifts before she built a more substantial shelter.
The shelter-building period is described in most accounts as a stopping point while conditions were too severe for continued movement.
She built a rough structure, used the hides she had brought as shelter material, and kept the children sheltered while managing her own need for warmth and the ongoing challenge of finding food.
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