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First Aid Kit 27-Aug-2010 At 3:48:22 PM casper

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Emergency blanket is a huge one. For such a small packing item they are pretty handy - can carry water, signal, and keep you warm.

In feb when I fell/slid 30m down Eurobin and lay at the bottom getting sprayed by the waterfall, an emergency blanket was pretty much all my wife could do - and it was a huge help in stopping me getting hypothermia while we waited laying in the water an hour for the ambos and another few hours for the chopper. Other than the blood coming from my skull and the grazes down my right side, all my other injuries (fractures in pelvis, spine, skull, ribs, torn acl and internal bleeding from liver) were all internal, and untreatable in a first aid sense.

If we had been in a more remote location, or unable to use the mobile, we would have been pretty screwed...so in terms of a major trauma injury such as the one I got, should a beacon be included in a kit? We don't carry one, but after this we're thinking about it.