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  You trudge through the deep snow towards the front of the car. The snow is certainly deeper this way. You hit your foot on something under the snow. Since you were acting like a snow plow, it didn't really hurt, but it stopped you from walking for a second. It feels like it might be a guard rail or perhaps just a big rock. Either way, you're pretty sure that's something that isn't part of the main road that you assume must be around here somewhere.
  
  You manage to get over the rock, guardrail, or whatever is there. The ground is a little slippery at the bottom, but you manage to move around without falling down, though you're not quite sure how. The snow here is as deep as your mid-thighs, but at least with the snow that deep, you can't feel the wind on your legs. You try not to think about the fact that since your legs are now covered with snow that they will soon be wet, too.
  
  Looking around here you see more snow and more white. It seems like it might be snowing just a wee bit less over here, but you can't really tell. What you can see is an area that is a bit darker ahead of you. It might be trees, or maybe something else. Glancing back you can see the car, but you can tell that if you move forwards towards the darkness it is unlikely that you're going to see the car again. You know that all the stories tell you to stay with your car, but right now you can't see how saying with that freezing hunk of metal is really going to help you all that much. Except, of course, that's how they always end up finding everyone who gets lost in the snow, isn't it?
  
  > go towards the darker area.
  As you move forward, you start to see shapes and things ahead of you. You have to push some brush and branches out of the way and snow falls on your head and a bit runs down the back of your neck. Yes, the snow is still quite cold, especially on your back. But after getting through the edges of the brush you realize it is now somehow even quieter than it was outside in the thick snow.
  
  You are surprised by the light crunching sound as you take a step. Here, inside the thick forest, there is little snow on the ground. Looking up you can see the massive pine trees above you protecting the ground underneath. It also feels warmer here, too, but that may just be the lack of wind. There are branches high up and at the edges, but here underneath the trees there is a thick pine leaf ground and lots of large pine tree trunks.
  
  There are also a few larger boulders here, and one appears to hide a cave of some sort underneath. The forest continues in all directions, with all the tree trunks you can't really see all that far. You can continue deeper into the forest, or you can check out the cave underneath the rock near the edge of the forest. It might be a safe place to rest for awhile, but it also might be the home of a dangerous forest creature.
  
  > head into the shelter of the cave.
  As you move closer to the rock, you can see that the cave underneath the rock is larger than you thought at first. While the entrance is short, it look like it open up quickly in the area behind the entrance. This could make a very good place to take shelter for awhile, completely out of the wind and the weather. You could likely get in there and take a rest, be warm, and come back out when the snowstorm has ended. You are pretty sure you can find your way back to your car once the storm ends, and then it will just be a matter of time before someone comes down the road and finds you.
  
  But as you look closely at the entrance to the cave, you can see that the pine leaves here have been pressed down. There are areas where the needles have been moved, almost as if someone...or something...else has already been moving into and out of the cave below. Of course, the odds of someone else being out here in the wilderness in this weather are pretty darn low, right?
  
  > head deeper into the cave to look for shelter.
  It is summer, so this next news story might be a bit of a surprise to the locals. The Sheriff's department is reporting that a hiker found the remains of a person or persons in a small cave near the highway. The hikers had stopped at an overpass and were looking around in the woods when their child explored in a small cave. During the summer these caves are normally empty and relatively safe.
  
  These hikers found the remains of a person and from what the Sheriff's department has been able to piece together, the person may have stumbled into the cave of a hibernating bear in the winter some years ago. While most people assume that hibernating bears are safe, the Ranger's office informs this news station that when hibernating bears are disturbed, they can be very angry, confused, and dangerous. It appears that the person may have tried to enter the cave, the bear woke up, and quickly killed the person. Rangers explain it may have eaten some of the person, then gone back to sleep, only to have a ready-made feast waiting for it in the Spring.
  
  The Sheriff's department is still working on trying to obtain the identity of the person found, as no identification was with the remains. If you know anything about a person missing in these mountains, please contact the Sheriff's department or this station.
  
  Bad Ending #3