Avalanche can happen!

[valley ranch]

Brandy does bring core heat the surface to get you moving. If you just lay there you'll freeze. When you very cold your body shut off heat to the limbs to protect the core.
So you're right in a way. But if you're fit to move you've less chance of loosing fingers with a bit of brandy.

That calls for a large one, Brandy Wine. Here's to youse!

 

[valley ranch]

In deep powder, where there a crust has formed than it snowed again. You can sink in up to you
can sink in, sit down and someone can start a small slide, say 15 feet above you. You can just settle in with a face mask on. Your partner can send a Avalanche Puppy in, you can hear him move in, stop listen, if you keep quiet, he can see the slide and he will began to work in a pattern trying to smell you out through the snow.
The guys began to push bamboo poles in the snow, as if they're trying to find you too. If someone says "Here! another puppy will check that out.

The puppy will find you, he'll sniff you out. When they start driving the bamboo poles in he can't hear you any more, unless you cough.
They, the pups, get better and better until you can't wait them out.
They recognize your scent and bark at you while they're digging, telling you, you can't hide from me.