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InvisibleGreenWall
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Near death
    #25203738 - 05/14/18 04:51 PM (5 years, 8 months ago)

Saturday morning I woke up to leave to the Adirondacks in upstate New York, to hike about a 30km (18 mile) trail up two peaks. Now, the Adirondacks are more like large hills than mountains (so I thought) and despite the trail I had chosen being rated hard, I didn't think much of it. Anyways, the plan was to do a leisurely solo overnight hike, get some fishing in, just enjoy the outdoors. I had made it to around 3500ft, and had about 2 miles and 2000 feet to the peak, I was planning on getting to summit and coming back down to about 3500ft to make camp. Anyways, as I progressed past 3500 ft there was more and more snow, which I hadn't been expecting, as I recently did a very similar altitude summit the week before and there was only about 4-6" of snow left. I hadn't brought micro spikes as the snow had plenty of semi frozen debris (pine needles, sticks, etc.) to provide traction, but I definitely did NOT expect that I would need snowshoes. Well I began to fall into knee deep snow every 5-10 steps, and while it was annoying I felt confident I could still make it up to the summit. All of a sudden after crossing a small stream I couldn't make out where the trail was due to too much dead fall, and had veered off course. I was about 100 ft off the trail when I fell through this wet snow up to my waist, and was stuck. Completely stuck. I started to claw through this icy wet snow, splitting some of my knuckles. I don't recall the last time I had been this scared, I couldn't move my left leg at all and knew if I didn't get out there was a good chance I would freeze overnight or lose my leg. The depth of the snow was extremely deceptive, and I had not thought it was anywhere near that deep.

Eventually I clawed myself out. I was so exhausted, both due to physical effort trying to free myself and the pure adrenaline, that I had to call it a day, I spent 45 minutes fully exhausted trying to get back to where I would set up camp, when I realized my cellphone had fallen out of my unzipped pocket along the way. What an idiot I thought to myself. I turned back up, to double back and get my phone. As luck would have it, it was where I had fallen into the snow at the top of the trail. I got my phone and made it back to camp completely exhausted. I made some coffee, ate some hot food and passed out. The next day I hiked back down the mountain and made my way up to another summit successfully, where there was almost no snow at all. All in all it was a learning experience, and I've now come to understand the value in taking those extra precautions while hiking/camping solo.


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Re: Near death [Re: GreenWall]
    #25270943 - 06/15/18 08:31 PM (5 years, 7 months ago)

Damn, thanks for sharing. Glad you make it out ok :smile:


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Re: Near death [Re: GreenWall]
    #25271078 - 06/15/18 09:39 PM (5 years, 7 months ago)

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GreenWall said:
I've now come to understand the value in taking those extra precautions while hiking/camping solo.




So how would one be prepared if in falling into the snow-hole one had misplaced one's cell phone, as you did, and broken a leg?

The point being that one can't plan ahead for all contingencies or one wouldn't swim in the sea without shark repellant.


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Re: Near death [Re: Buster_Brown]
    #25271328 - 06/16/18 01:23 AM (5 years, 7 months ago)

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GreenWall said:
I've now come to understand the value in taking those extra precautions while hiking/camping solo.




So how would one be prepared if in falling into the snow-hole one had misplaced one's cell phone, as you did, and broken a leg?

The point being that one can't plan ahead for all contingencies or one wouldn't swim in the sea without shark repellant.




I feel like he just probably means that he has learned the value of risk mitigation. You don't need to take shark repellent swimming, but you probably wouldn't go swimming if you had an open bleeding wound and you knew sharks were in the area.
On the same note, he probably realize he wasn't fully prepared and there were things he could have done to mitigate the risk.


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Re: Near death [Re: Andromea]
    #25271419 - 06/16/18 03:35 AM (5 years, 7 months ago)

I'm over philosophizing I know, we don't dress up in full scuba regalia for a recreational dip and so forth...la,la,la, I'm silly; Thankyou for the write-up of your close encounter GreenWall.


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Re: Near death [Re: Buster_Brown]
    #25274857 - 06/17/18 04:38 PM (5 years, 7 months ago)

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GreenWall said:
I've now come to understand the value in taking those extra precautions while hiking/camping solo.




So how would one be prepared if in falling into the snow-hole one had misplaced one's cell phone, as you did, and broken a leg?

The point being that one can't plan ahead for all contingencies or one wouldn't swim in the sea without shark repellant.




Taking the precautions to bring all the necessary equipment for one, snowshoes would have been really helpful but if going somewhere without cellphone signal a GPS locator would be a valuable asset I think. If I had gotten stuck I wouldn't have had a way to communicate with the outside world to let anyone know.

I guess more dedicated preparation would alleviate some of those concerns.


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Re: Near death [Re: GreenWall]
    #25275035 - 06/17/18 05:49 PM (5 years, 7 months ago)

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if going somewhere without cellphone signal a GPS locator would be a valuable asset I think. If I had gotten stuck I wouldn't have had a way to communicate with the outside world to let anyone know.






I see that PLB's are the land-based equivalents of Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons that work on the radio frequency to alert monitored emergency channels and "should be activated only in situations of grave and imminent danger, and only as a last resort when all means of self-rescue have been exhausted."

Unlike with satellite messengers, you do not have to pay any recurring fees in order to use a PLB, but extra batteries may be needed if the signal is required for longer than 24 hours.


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