This book starts where The Carnivorous Carnival left off. Klaus and Violet are rolling down a steep mountainside in an out-of control caravan, while Sunny is in the clutches of Count Olaf and his henchmen. Violet manages to devise a method to slow and eventually stop the caravan by using the hammocks as a drag chute, spreading sticky stuff on the wheels, and using the table as a brake. They get supplies and after they get out of the caravan, it tips over the mountainside. The two siblings travel up the mountain and are attacked by snow gnats. They find shelter from the vicious snow gnats in a cave, which is also being occupied by a group of children called Snow Scouts. Carmelita Spats, a spoilt girl (around the age of the eldest Baudelaires) who made her initial appearance in The Austere A