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why they shot Marcus down,” said Kim.  “Plus Jocelyn says that a large section of the Shenandoah National Park is being jammed.  There are no signals in or out.”
    “Well lets jump in the MAV and drive up there,” said Wynd.  “It will take longer but at least they can’t shoot us down.”
    “The weather is going to get worse and worse. In a few days, after this clears out, we can head that way.  If Marcus is still alive, I know he can take care of himself,” said Kim.
    As Kim was finishing, Jocelyn spoke up, “Everyone please look at the screen.  I have found something else.  The timestamp is the day after the accident.”
    The video started playing on the screen again.  From the left hand side of the screen a figure slowly entered the clearing and limped toward the helicopter.  It was Marcus.  Wynd was jumping up and down again.  
    “He is still alive!” yelled Wynd.  They all celebrated with her.
    They continued watching him as he entered the cockpit and began to pull containers and bags from the wreckage.  After seeing the things he pulled from the wreckage, they were convinced he was still alive and would survive until they found him.  He made over five trips to the helicopter, even going as far as to strip some of the cushions from the seats.  Finally Jocelyn announced that she had scanned the additional footage and that there were no more instances of Marcus being seen.  She said she would continually monitor the camera feed and would let them know immediately if he showed up again.
    “Jocelyn.  Judging from the speed of Marcus limping around and the time difference between trips; can you estimate how far he is from the crash site?  I realize that he may be resting before coming back or maybe eating or whatever.  How far can he be away if you estimated the shortest time interval?” asked David.
    “Within a standard deviation of fifteen minutes, I would estimate that Marcus is no further that two miles from the crash site, “said Jocelyn.
    Kim thought they were going to have to strap Wynd in a chair.  She headed toward the door like she was going to leave then.  Kim stopped her before she could get out the door.
    “We are going to have to wait.  It’s supposed to snow for the next several days and if the temperatures fluctuate like the computer is saying, we should have ice mixed in with that,” said Kim.  “The computer models are saying that this is the worst winter storm in two hundred years. Don’t worry about Marcus.  He’s been on his own since he was thirteen so you know he knows how to survive.  And you know he’s tough.  Just look at the crash we watched him walk away from.”
    Kim was finally able to talk her out of it and they went back to planning how to go get him.
     

Chapter 9
    Throughout the day John stayed in the cave, only going out for a few minutes at a time.  The rest of the time he cooked his fish and dozed off and on.  The snow was continuing to fall and the temperature was staying low.  John wished that the radio in the helicopter was still working.  Even though he wasn’t sure who he was, it would be nice to speak to someone else.
    The next morning John headed out into the snow to gather some more wood and check his snares.  He wrapped up in every stitch of clothes he could find in the helicopter but was still cold.  He realized that he was going to have to make sure that he kept his supplies stocked up.  With the deepening snow, it was going to get harder and harder to keep up his food supply.
    He made several trips to and from the cave with wood he had gathered.  So far he had been lucky.  He hadn’t seen a dinosaur all day.  John wondered if they had moved off to the southern valley to take shelter during this storm.  After a couple of hours of gathering wood, he decided he would go check his snares.  There was at least a foot of snow already and it was snowing harder.  He had placed the first snare about a hundred yards from