Real-Life Decision Making
You wake up one cold January morning disgruntled with the current prices for pelts. This whole season has been so tough that you are just about ready to hang up your traps forever. As a trapper, you would really regret this decision because you love the outdoors. Not having a boss and being one with nature are things that you won't be able to give up easily.
You have planned a two-day trip to catch wolverine. At least wolverine pelts are holding steady. Of course, you will really need to use your wits -- wolverines are one of the hardest animals to trap because they are solitary creatures.
The trip will take you to an area of your trapline that you are not too familiar with. Your trapline, the piece of land you trap on, was handed down to you by your father and mother, who were also trappers.
You remember your father telling you he found wolverines on the northern part of the trapline, but because it is difficult to navigate this area in the winter, you usually don't travel this far. But times are desperate.
You pour coffee in a thermos, pack a few days' worth of food and the appropriate traps and head to the snowmobile. It is barely dawn outside and already the wind is picking up and the snow is beginning to fall.
You traverse the deep snow. All you can hear is the snowmobile motor roaring across the forest. You see the mountains ahead. It gives you a sense of freedom.
About three hours later, you arrive at the very isolated spot on your trapline. You set up your camping gear and begin laying out the traps. Your boots crunch in the snow and the air is so fresh it is clearing out all those nasty thoughts you had about your job earlier.
You are so eager to catch wolverine and so entranced by nature that you are not really paying attention as you set the traps. Unfortunately, these are new traps. They are more humane to animals, but a little harder to use.
Snap! Suddenly, you find yourself trapped, a victim in the wilderness, miles from any hospital and in pain. You remove your hand from the trap. Your wrist is immediately swollen. You can move it only slightly and you fear it may be broken.
What do you do?