Quote Originally Posted by Rob Furness View Post
He did say minor breaks, and he is actually correct. If you can move, you get off the hill unless help has reached you or you're 100% that help are on the way and know how long they will take. If you can't move then obviously there's not much you can do but hope for the best as it sounds was the situation for the guy with the serious knee injury. MRT do a very good job and are always appreciated, but in an ideal world I would sooner be rescued from the tamest environment I could drag myself to rather than rely on them reaching me in time.

Windproof kit is actually excellent. I have a featherlite marathon jacket and the great thing about it is that it keeps you warm even when soaking wet (providing you're moving) and because it's much more breathable than a waterproof jacket I can run in it much more comfortably and tend to don it much sooner than I would a full waterproof. I wouldn't expect to use it in poor weather, nor in a race calling for a waterproof, but neither would I dismiss it completely.
Fair enough. I suppose the upshot is - if you're only going to have a minor injury just take windproofs and keep on moving, but if you're going to have a big injury take proper waterproofs. Simple enough.