Winter Flight

About the Book

A commercial airline's small float plane crashes after picking up passengers during a routine flight from remote logging camps on British Columbia's North Pacific coast. Survivors are left stranded in the mountains, with only their city clothes, no food or equipment, facing winter conditions.

Having somehow survived the actual crash they are now faced with coping with exposure and hypothermia. This is the story of their struggle to survive.

About the Author

The author spent most of his adult life working in the forest iIndustry on the B. C. coast. He worked as a logger in a number of woods jobs - chokerman, rigging-slinger, hook-tender, high-rigger. He also worked as a timber cruiser, forest technician involved in mapping, road layout and setting layout. He held a number of positions in management as well - falling and bucking foreman, woods foreman, and camp superintendent.