Originally published at Notes From The Bunker. You can comment here or there.

A Nevada couple missing for a week in the California mountains after their vehicle became stuck following a sudden snow storm have been found, the woman survived the ordeal, but her boyfriend died, police said.

Paula Lane, 46, and Roderick Clifton, 44, were reported missing on Nov. 29, after they left Clifton’s mother’s home in Citrus Heights, Calif., on their way home to Nevada.

The couple are believed to have taken their Jeep off-roading when they became stranded off Highway 88/89 in the Sierra Nevada mountains, police said.

“They spent that first day, and slept, in the vehicle before Roderick left to go find help, but he never came back,” said Bryan Fritsch, a spokesman for the Citrus Heights police department.

Stay with the vehicle. This chick went out and was found by relatives who were searching for her. Dang lucky, if you ask me. Why didnt the boyfriend have the same luck? I’m guessing that by the time she left the vehicle to look for help they had been missing long enough that the area was being saturated with searchers. Just a guess.

It’s not tough to do: sleeping bag, water, food, firestarting, signal materials, a good book, and warm clothes. Even in the 21st century in a First World industrialized nation you can still wind up stuck in the middle of nowhere freezing to death.