Hey all, I am new here but have been lurking here for a while tons of great info is shared here, IMHO.
I like the scenarios situations best so …
Your car is forced off road by a rock slide as the result of an earthquake and tumbles 50 ft. down a ravine and is caught by the trees. About half way down the trunk pops open and your overnight bag/supplies begin to spill out as you finish the fall. You have a cell phone but since you are in a ravine you have no signal.
You are ok, but the two passengers are injured (injuries like a severely sprained ankle that would prevent them from climbing out) and can not be moved. Beyond you the ravine has a cliff drop off of 70 ft..
How do you survive the 63 hours it takes the rescue party to reach you?
- there are trees but it is not a forest
- the overnight bags contain sleepwear and a change of clothes
- only roughly 1.5 gallons of water survived the fall
- car battery is punctured
- although you may hear wildlife, it is not a threat

First some questions:

''and tumbles 50 ft. down a ravine and is caught by the trees.''

Can you get out, or are you balancing on the edge?

''About half way down the trunk pops open and your overnight bag/supplies begin to spill out as you finish the fall.''

Does this mean you have no overnight bag? Or can you retrieve them?

What sort of equipment do you have: Your BOB-bag or just whats on your person?

''and can not be moved.''

Not moved like climbing out of the ravine, or not moved like serious cervical/ spinal trauma, where they can't get out of the truck?

''How do you survive the 63 hours''

Should I also describe patient care? Do you really mean 63 hours or maybe 36?

After the car comes to rest I assume that everyone is able to be extracted from the auto. they can be moved, but they are not going to be climbing up the ravine. The able bodied person could collect the bags or some of the bags. You would probably have a auto bag of some type with misc supplies. Yes I meant 63 hours... I wanted to make the situation include 2 overnight periods. Great questions.

Are we on a slope or a flat spot? Is the car steady on the trees, or (more likely) kinda springy? More details on the injuries, please. Weather? Traffic level on the road above? Aftershocks- are they likely to send more rock down? How steep is the slope, and how stable?

My mistake

All right, here's my background: Me and my parents have fallen with a truck into a ravine after a earthquake. I have my PSK/EDC with me and my larger survival backpack is always beside me, so I assume I have that to. It?s cold, but not raining (yet) You say that it would take 63 hrs for a search-party to find me, so my primary objectives are:
-Medical care
-Shelter
-fire
-Signalling/Location
-water/(food/energy booster)

First thing I would ask: ?everybody all right??. I would find out that 2 people are hurt, so I would look at their injuries and treat them if possible using my medical kit that is in my larger survival backpack.

After that, I would move the 2 patients and the supplies as far as possible from the crash-site, to prevent being hit by debris/rocks from possible aftershocks. After that I would start making a shelter, using the tube-tent in wich I could transfer the two injured passengers.I would use my 2 thermal blankets to prevent hypothermia and if it's possible: collect the overnight bags and use there equipment to.

Then I make a fire wich I position as to allow maximum heat onto the victims (if it's cold weather), possibly make a heat-reflector from a piece of HD aluminium foil. I would get two times what I think I would need in firewood (from the tries) and lite it using Coghlan?s emergency tinder, my fire steel - bic - or match. Off course I make my fire that it burns the whole night.

For signalling, I would give one of the victims a whistle on a lanyard so that I can keep contact with them. I also take a whistle and a signal mirror. Possibly I would make 3 signal-fire for stand-by, possibly using the tires of the truck for instant black smoke. I would cover them with 3 hd garbage bags to prevent them from getting wet. The bags would make a signal, even if the fire isn?t on. Maybe it?s even possible for me to climb out of the ravine and also make some sort of signal there to give away out location to the searching party.

I have 2 quarts in my survival backpack and 1.5 gallons survived the fall, so I wouldn't have a shortage of water. Also with my emergency rations and energy boosters I'm able to fight of hunger and thirst for the 63 hours it takes the search-party to find me.

In the night, my fire and LED headlights/flashlights would provide light and I could use my reusable heat-packs to keep the victims warm.

Well, after two nights the search-party would find us. I give 3 blasts on my whistle to find us, we are extracted out of the ravine. The victims would be taken to the hospital and everything would be all right. We survived!

(I would off course make a post on this forum the next day?.)

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If this is your scenario for fun, I would hate to hear about your idea of a bad day... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

That actually happened to me!

Fortunately two aliens were flying in the same ravine. They helped me up, took me to their mothership where I met some "Grays", patched me and my truck up, and even gave me gasoline (at least I THINK it was gasoline) <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />