To all the noobs here...
Read this and learn from it. This, if anything, is a cautionary tale.
I always read these this and try to learn. Mr. Hein pointed out his mistakes...well off trail by himself, no signal mirror and he left his pack. Nothing is said about the contents of his first aid kit but using a tourniquet says he could not stop the bleeding with what was in his first aid kit.
Many think this will not happen to them...it does and it has happened to me but not to this extent and I was hiking a x-country route with a friend. I stepped on a loose rock a year ago and thought I torn my Achilles deep in a canyon with one block I had to work to get around get out on what turned out to be a severely sprained ankle. With the help of my friend I got out but did not hike for about six weeks because of the injury.
