Winter car prep scenario

[Scythe13]

Given that you said the scenario was 1 mile from life, I'd just grab my stuff and get going. Yes it wouldn't be easy, but if my injury is that bad, I'd probably not be able to get into the sleeping bag.

In winter, I always have my snowboard gear with me. Not always my board, but boots, gloves, waterproofs, insulated clothes, and thermals. Oh, and goggles+face warmer/scarf. So I know I'd be warm enough. Worst case scenario, cut a leg off the trousers, and make do with 1 limb exposed. I run most mornings in shorts and a hoodie (even today at -1 degrees, at 6:30am) so as long as I kept a semi-reasonable place, I should be okay. On all 4's, minus 1, if I had to. If it was super cold, I'd convert my sleeping bag into a thermal caterpillar outfit (cut arm and leg holes in it) and use that to keep extra warm.

If I couldn't carry my whole GHB due to injury, I'd opt for a load of thermal blankets, and some chocolate!!! I LOVE chocolate. Then maybe a bottle of water, kept close to my skin, but not touching it, to stop the water freezing. It's 1 mile, and I've done much more, in the Alps, while carrying a snowboard (that would be my equivalent view of an injury, carrying a bloody heavy board, although it did come in handy quite a bit haha). Obviously, I'd have a torch with me, and my head torch. Head torch to light the path. Normal torch to signal with. And some hand warmers. Those things are great!!!

Screw the car. I can come back to that. Priority would be to get somewhere safe, while I still had energy to make the journey. If the roads are seldom used, I'm not going to risk being rescued. I'd leave a note to any would be rescuers, stating my name, age, direction of travel, the time and date I set off from, and the fact that I had an injured leg.

Then it would be a case of do or die.

Preferably not the latter.