I still think you're underestimating the situation.
I'm mostly going on this:
When the APC comes to a stop, Mike is unconscious, laying in a corner, broken seatbelt still around his waist and chest. Vincent unbluckles himself is crouching over Mike, checking if he's even still alive, when someone bangs on the side of the apc and the faint words "RUN FOR IT!" can just be heard over the roar of the storm outside. Vincent half groans, half screams out of frustration and picks up the body of his unconscious teammate, throwing the man over his shoulder. He hits the open button on the back door and squeezes through as soon as it has struggled open enough for him to get out. Even though he's only maybe 15 seconds behind Jobasio, no more then a hundred feet away, he can't see him or anything for that matter. Everything is swirling nothing. A world made of white noise. He sets off, away from the light.
After only fifteen seconds, you completely lost visual contact.
And this:
Mesk cuts some of the power from the rockets and levels off into a straight horizontal flight. The countdown over the radio continues, getting ever closer to zero. When the timer finally runs out, the announcement changes.
>Payload away. Directional thrusters engaged. Matching calculated trajectory. Time till impact estimated at 238 seconds. All ground units, continue egress.
If Mesk's action started chronologically at the same time as yours, you've been walking for nearly five minutes (remember, the previous countdown was a full minute.)
Since you were covered in that much snow, I'm guessing you got tossed around and knocked over at least a little. Not to mention whatever turning you'll have to do to escape. I would be amazed if your character could even guess the general direction you were walking, let alone the specific direction that will bring you within fifteen second's walk of a half buried APC, after walking for five minutes.
Even if you have perfect recall of the direction once you dig yourself out, I specifically remember PW saying directly during the samsonite abyss mission that he knows a person is incapable of walking a straight line when they can't see. And that was in reference to finding their own way back to a extremely long line, not a specific spot.
Beyond all this: What advantage do you hope to gain by getting into the APC? You're in a suit which protects from the cold vacuum of
space. Heat isn't a problem. Food could be, but I doubt the storm will last for days. If the APC has a stronger signal than your suits, you could probably use that to find it easier.
So, unrelated to the current APC launching but... since this takes place in the futury area and the prisoner run radio is the plug.dj thing does that mean that the people running the radio all like older music of various types?
Oh come on, haven't you read the novel-length threads? It's common knowledge that all HMRC inmates happen to be extreme ancient history buffs. Elizas was especially nerdy about it, gleefully matching classic heroes of ancient antiquity against each other in fights.
Don't start questioning it, or else we've have to start bringing up how they can even understand the lyrics, with 2000 years of linguistic evolution. If your local radio station started playing Ancient Greek or Babylonian music, how well would you understand it? 
Though Latin might be a better example, seeing as the Romans were a bigger civilization and left records of their language behind... Not that most people could understand that, either.
Not quite old enough. Try ancient sumerian, maybe early akkadian. And across hundreds of planets, too. It's amazing that most of the inmates can even talk to each other.
Then again, humanity probably has better records than them, and actual dictionaries, so it's reasonable to think they might have kept the same basic language.
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