Reply #7: More avalanche survival tips:

[havocmom]

While taking a ski safety class before a ski trip to Europe, my sister's instructor told them 'In the event that you get buried by snow, before starting to dig, spit! One can lose sense of direction after a bad tumble in the snow and if you expend a lot of energy digging in the wrong direction, it could cost you your life. Spit and see which way it falls; that would be down. Dig in the other direction.'

After some grumbling from the class about trying to spit in the cold, my well endowed sister said she would just take her bra off, see which way her boobs hung and dig in the opposite direction. A gent in the back of the class said, "I'm skiing with her."