Tis the season for some skiing out there, and if you're into it, you know how much fun it can be.

Especially when you get a beautiful day with some fresh powder, just carving down the mountain

and looking forward to some apre ski later on back to the lodge. But you have to be careful up there

before you decide to strap them up and shred the narr. You're going to want to heed these stories

of warning, and they could save your life up there. Here are five mysterious disappearances of

mountain skiers. Number five, Carrie Swenson. Originally from Boseman, Montana, Carrie Swenson was a

driven athlete who focused solely on excelling in her sport. After winning bronze in the first

Women's Biathlon World Championships in Chamonix, France in 1984, she then moved to big

sky on Montana, where she took a job at a guest ranch. The goal wasn't just to make money,

but also to have the perfect place to train, and Montana provided all that.

The Biathlon, if you don't know is a sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting,

and every day after work, she would train along one of the many mountain trails in the area.

On July 15, 1984, while on a training run in the Ulirees Lakes area,

Swenson, who was just 23 at the time, came across Don Nichols and his son Dan.

The two survivalists had long abandoned modern society, opting for a life up in the mountains,

where they lived off the land. While this may sound adventurous and even admirable,

it was a big problem for them up there that the land couldn't give them.

See, 53-year-old Don, while it was time for 18-year-old Dan to find a wife.

But in their day-to-day activities, there simply weren't any women around,

that is, until they came across Carrie.

When Swenson failed to return to her job at evening as expected, a search party was immediately

organized. For hours, more than a dozen searchers, called the mountainous area,

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