Another article said he was wearing running shoes. If his feet were so bad he required morphine, I assume he loses some toes at best.
I don't know the terrain, but he had a tarp and a little food. It seems to me that any knife, a lighter, a whistle, a cell phone, maybe a mirror, and boots would have saved his feet at least.
Boots alone, it sounds like, would have made a significant difference.
Here is the general area and an idea of the terrain in this picture that I took in Dec. 2010. Hanes Valley is slightly NW from here.
This
link to a pdf map of Lynn Valley Park shows Hanes Valley just to the bottom right of the map legend.
The above picture was taken in the river bed at the Third Debris Chute location as denoted in the pdf.
This man was very lucky. This is extremely rugged and unforgiving country which has turned me back on more then one occasion.
Some more info on the rescue here.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
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