Watch Found Ticking: How a Missing Beacon Meant 81 Hours Buried
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Watch Found Ticking: How a Missing Beacon Meant 81 Hours Buried
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Cold, controlled panic: a wristwatch ticked for 81 hours in undisturbed snow while its owner lay alive beneath six feet of debris - and no footprints led to the scene. How did a watch travel out of a debris field with zero disturbance, and what single missing device turned a survivable burial into a multi-day rescue?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a May morning call to the Pryor County Sheriff to four days of searching, two wrong locations, and the decision that nearly ended the operation. You’ll hear how training, equipment, and a small distraction combined with a hidden weak layer in the snow to create an eighty-one-hour ordeal and the stubborn question everyone kept circling back to.
Person: Frank Schmidt
Date: May 11-14, 2019
Location: bowl above Kessler Road, Montana
Duration: 81 hours before the watch was found ticking
Condition: buried under six feet of consolidated snow with a pencil-width breathing channel
- A meter reader, Troy Bauer, found the wristwatch at 7:51 AM on May 14, 2019, face-up in undisturbed snow and photographed it.
- The watch had been ticking for 81 hours inside a Montana mountain when photographed.
- Frank Schmidt, 26 years old, was buried under six feet of consolidated debris with a watermelon-sized hollow in front of his face.
- The crown fracture that released above him was four feet deep and 210 feet wide; he was carried approximately 340 feet.
- Frank had left his beacon at home on the kitchen counter after removing it to replace batteries; the beacon was 30 miles from the mountain.
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