Originally Posted by Moose

Snow survival is firmly in a class of clichés that get on my nerves only slightly less certainly than Hollywood computing does.

It's pretty much the same reason why Blair Witch Project annoyed the living heck out of me. With the information readily available in the movie, when token-guy number two announced he deliberately ditched the map, I had no fewer than three workable navigational strategies even these fool lay folks couldn't possibly botch by the fifth expletive.

Simplest of them is this: if you're truly lost in the woods, find running water (like the water these turkeys were standing in), a brook or river, and follow it downstream. Walk in the water if you can't walk along it. But follow the river downstream.