This is not how you wanted to visit the backcountry. Let's see, you're down, you're alive buy you and your passenger are injured. How you prepared for wilderness survival may determine whether this story has a happy ending.
As aviators, we see no irony in being sustained aloft by an ongoing series of violent explosions of a volatile chemical mixture generating a hearing-damaging roar that calms us to the point of somnolence. Yet when that soothing roar ceases, without our command, and the resulting silence brings us to a level of terrified hypervigilance […]
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