Stitch curls up again and rolls off, skidding around behind another tree as his little fort is breeched. Poor thing. It served him well.
Up the tree again he goes, only this time he's doing something strange, bouncing from branch to branch, causing snow to fall and leaving a large area rather thoroughly covered by it. Once he's happy, he dives down and into it. Snow is so much better than water. The alien disappears into it, and starts tunnelling through it, night-vision on as he works from a mental map. Let's see the man track him through this]