HJ: Excellent observations all around. No worries about ripping the guy; he has done that enough himself, and anyone who doesn't get that has not listened to him on that subject.
Anyone who does rip this guy is missing much more important things:
He did not leave a perfect track, he knows that, but he left more than most and enough for SAR to fly over his position several times before he was rescued. These things are ALWAYS matters of probability.
What he did know and did do made the difference between his being rescued and otherwise.
In his very early recovery, he has given interviews making the important points of what he did right and what he did wrong.
Criticize it if you will; I call this progress. we are all better informed for his story, as was he from those who went before him.
