Here's a kit you can put together for winter emergencies that you can store in your car.

• Several sleeping bags or blankets and some warm clothing, such as parka, boots, long underwear, heavy socks, mittens, ski mask
• A heat source
• A radio and large flashlight with extra batteries for both
• Food, including hard candy, jellybeans, raisins, nuts, candy bars, dehydrated fruit, and jerky
• Magazines or a book to read to help keep you awake
• Water Bottle
• Toilet tissue
• Flares to signal for help
• Nylon rope
• Cell phone

Photos Writers Rising Up, Elisabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail at the Richard T. Anderson Conservation Area