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I'm Thomas Pickett and I'm from Vancouver, British Columbia.
So I went into North Vancouver with a friend in the Spring time, and we went up to Lynn
Peak and then over towards the South Needle.
We ended up coming down a trail called Hydraulic which would take us back to the recreational
road through the demonstration forest.
It was pretty snowy up top but as we descended through the Hydraulic area the snow started
to dissipate pretty quickly.
Near the bottom it really shallows out and it gets nice and 'rolley'.
As we were jogging out, I ended up slipping on a bit of moss and landing on a really sharp
rock that cut open my leg.
As soon as I saw how deep it was, I just grabbed it with both hands and closed it right up.
My friend came up from behind me and I asked him for his long-sleeved shirt so that we
could create a tourniquet right away.
We knew that we were really close to the road and that's where the most access was.
So where he couldn't piggy-back me, I just kind of crawled out.
As soon as we got there, we flagged down a cyclist and she went back to the ranger station,
and they drove us out to the parking lot and then we drove to Lions Gate Hospital to get
stitched up.
It was really fortunate that it was super close to the road, and also that I knew the
area too - I knew that the road was coming up and that the best idea was to move out
to it.
Had it happened higher up, we would have had to re-assess what we were going to do - whether
we were going to have to wait for Search and Rescue or figure out a different strategy
to get me down to an area where we could be pulled out from the trail.
Accidents happen and you can't really predict when they are going to happen.