While an ambulance foundered in a snowbank 3 miles away, police and neighbors summoned doctors, nurses and paramedics who arrived on snowmobiles and in four - wheel drive vehicles to deliver Rosan and John Sandbach's second child.
During the 1930s, Robert Marshall, a founder of the Wilderness Society, observed that wild country was «disappearing like a snowbank melting away on a southfacing slope in the hot June sun.»