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This action adventure tells of two kids who must find help for their parents who crashed their plane in the high Sierras. That's the standard description I got off the internet. I haven't seen this movie in a long time, but from what I remember, the parents are on a plane with their 2 kids and I think either the dad was the pilot and had a heart attack or their pilot had a heart attack. Whatever, they crash and its up to the brother and sister to hike out and get the family saved. The parents can't help because they're injured. The mom's leg is broken and she can barely move. The kids start hiking out and after many dangerous-type misadventures, they get back to the plane with rescuers just as the gas from the plane is about to hit the fire and the mom, instead of moving or even just sticking her leg in the path of the gas to divert it is screaming and throwing little bits of dirt at the gas and trying to dig a trench, but the gas just keeps heading to the fire and the kids/rescuers have to save her.

I know that sounds stupid, but it's really more camp and it was good for the early 80's. I actually remember enjoying it, but I was a pre-teen then, too. :)

The other review isn't incorrect with its memory, but the situation with the gas (which truthfully, is about the strongest memory in my head too) wasn't that silly.

Sticking her leg in the gas and therefore, saturating any part of her immobile body in gas (she was injured from the crash, even if she used her good leg) would have been silly with the gas heading toward the fire.

If the gas was going downhill and toward the fire, her best option and only option, wsa to prevent it from reaching the fire any way possible.

Plus I think we were shown the gas heading toward the fire before she finally noticed it, so when she saw it, it was then heading toward the fire.

As the other review said, the father who was the pilot, was injured and still in the plane. The mother wsa the actress who played Mrs. Garvey on Little House on The Prairie, a character who was, interestingly enough, killed in the blind school fire with Mary Ingalls Kendall's baby boy.

The children, Brad Savage and Heather McAdam, at this time were vets of TV as well.

Haven't seen Brad in anything lately, but he will perhaps always be known as the boy in Salem's Lot who had his friend or brother, now a vampire, scratching outside the window wnating to come in.

Savage would later appear to Lance Kewin.

Heather McAdam was a child actress.

Again, like the other review, I have difficulty remembering their adventures as well, the two kids who had to go for help.

Typical boy scout stuff, I do recall that. I think the boy was bitten by a rattle snake or fell off a cliff and injured his leg and coudln't run very well.

The girl, upon seeing some other campers, had to run to get to them as she was chased by wolves.

This was actually a three-parter, but for the life of me, I can't remember a lot that took place with the kids.

Seems like there should have been a rapids scene in there somewhere too.

But the gasoline bit was actually done somewhat well. Interesting that it emerges as the most memorable aspect of the show from two reviews.