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Cold hard truth

By Sam Eifling
ESPNOutdoors.com

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

For a few hours, there was time for Rulon Gardner to think. Why didn't I wear a coat? He didn't think he'd be out long. He was only a few miles from home. The weather had been pleasant on the mountain, clear and right around freezing. Shirts and a fleece should have been fine. If only I had been able to get my snowmobile up the hill right behind my friend. Bad luck, that. Maybe if he weren't a 280-pound heavyweight wrestler, he might have made it up and over, and he wouldn't have gone backwa ...

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