Survival situation scenario (Intermediate)
Intermediate
Your decisions now become more critical. Again this is meant to get you thinking. It is a training scenario. Your answers will be critiqued in such a way as to guides you to making the best decisions possible. Good luck.
You and your best friend are on day 2 of a 5 day fly in deer hunting trip to the McPherson passage side of Naked Island, Prince William Sound Alaska. Your camp is in an inlet just south of Kelso point. The time is 10:00am. About 20 minutes ago you heard a single rifle shot. You take out your FRS radio and call your buddy. No answer. You wait a few more minutes and try again. Not getting an answer you head in the direction you heard the shot thinking he got a deer and could use some help getting it back to camp.
At 12:30pm you find a fresh blood trail in the snow with boot tracks on top of it. (edit to add) Your friend is obviously following a wounded deer. The tracks lead you to a slop that is almost vertical. At the bottom of the slop some 50ft below you is your best friend. His Right leg has a grotesque bend in it and he is grunting and moaning as if in a great deal of pain.
Your camp is only a mile away but it will take you nearly 2 hours to get there and back because of the steep, high ridge between the camp and your current location.
You must get your friend off this island as quickly as possible to save his life.
Please be as detailed as possible explaining your actions in this scenario. i.e. “I used the electrical tape to splint my broken finger by taping it to the one next to it. Placing a wrap between the 2nd and 3rd knuckles also between the 3rd and 4th knuckles”.
Type of environment: Coastal bush Alaska (an island). The terrain is steep with elevations up to 1000ft. The vegetation varies from clear to brushy to heavily wooded. The ground is covered with a foot of fresh snow on top of a foot of old snow.
Weather conditions: Cloudy. Temperatures are the mid 20’s.
Season: Mid November
Equipment:
You are wearing;
Water proof hunting pants and parka w/liner
Wool watch cap and baseball cap
Set of polypro’ long underwear
1 pair cotton boxer briefs
1 pair mid weight smart wool socks, 1 pair heavy weight smart wool socks
1 pair 800 thinsulate rubber knee boots
1 pair polypro’ glove liners, 1 pair goretex leather gloves
1 high quality fixed blade hunting knife
1 Leatherman supertool
Expensive divers style wrist watch
(your friend is dressed similarly)
In your small day pack;
LED head lamp
1 5ft x 7ft piece of heavy plastic sheeting
15ft 3 ply 3/8 twisted nylon rope
Gerber folding saw
50ft 550 cord
1/2 roll of duct tape
Small first aid kit
Fire kit
NOTE: (at camp you have a cell phone. The battery is fully charged but the signal is weak to nothing at the camp. Other items at your camp would include normal cold weather camping items, i.e. Tent, sleeping bags & pads, propane buddy heater with extra propane bottles, etc. There is also a bottle with 6 10mg Vicoden, “a narcotic pain reliever”)
Supplies:
1 PB&J
1 small bag of trail mix
1 liter bottle of water
Number of people in the group: 2
Each person's strengths: N/A, You know your own strengths. You friend is of no help to you.
Weaknesses: N/A,
Medical condition: Your friend has a badly broken leg Just below his knee
