Steadman, Mouse
No please leave the posts, they are very informative. In the rare event that you do run into a really bad situation at least we have had a chance to read your input. My first aid training was in Boy Scouts about a millennium ago. Though we did discuss tourniquets, we also learned that pressure points are more useful and less damaging. I guess I'm lucky - I did break a leg once but it was at orienteering meet and there was doctors there, otherwise I would never have been running in the woods in the first place...
Other than that I never get more than a cut and since I no longer carry really sharp dangerous knives, they are rarely bad cuts. No, if someone has to be rescued its someone else, which is why I feel safer traveling alone - true.
Jim