Option #1 for me. I'm very tempted to march onwards to find my partner, but if I have to trudge thru all this snow for an hour, I'll probably advance only a few hundred meters, if that! Besides, after defeating an entire avalanche, I'm beat, and I need a rest.
I'll dig a cave and have a nice warm rest. Snow has pretty decent insulating qualities, so I'll be quite warm if I stay in my cave and under my aluminum foil blanket.
You are a bad a$$ defeating nature's furry ;)
Heh, heh. In my dreams. Or, actually, in your fictional setting. :-)
BTW, so far, this has proven to be a very interesting series. Thanks for creating it!