the important part is you don’t have to die because you got stranded out somewhere. There are cheap solutions. Well cheaper than the cost to find your dead body and the cost of a funeral.
That's the most important. Don't want to get stranded. As mentioned previously have InReach so never loose contact. Just picked up an 06 TJR, 103K miles, 4 speed auto, 3" lift. 12K superwinch and 33x12.5R17 E rated KO2's going on soon (already have new JLR wheels and adapters, $270 on FB).
Nobody is o.k. with it. That guy that loved rock climbing sawed his hand off to get home.
Because slowly starving to death sucks? We don't venture out to die, it's how we choose to live. We accept the risk that comes with it. That guy still rock climbs with 1 arm, he is still willing to die doing what he loves but it's obviously not the goal. I want to live forever, if I can still do what I love. If I'm extending my life by hiding in my house waiting to have a team with me to go out into nature, what's the point?
Exactly. I knew a guy that took a horse pack trip solo, across the Sierras. He was in his 60s and took a pack horse as well. Some of the pix he took showed some pretty sketchy terrain for a horse. But he was confident in his horses and his abilities. I've had horses on some pretty white knuckle terrain myself. I've been bucked off, crashed, and fallen with horses. I flew my aerobatic airplane under a bridge inverted and did things in it that almost killed me, more times than I can recall. I have made 5 successful dead stick landings after having blown engines and all other kinds of things. I've made over 30 jumps from a plane. Why I'm still here is a wonder. So, yeah, I agree, life isn't much sitting in front of a TV. I've settled down to something pretty tame, jeeping.
