Review of Garmin inReach mini - winter camping call for rescue

I get a strange feeling while watching this one. 

Michael,

I watched the video. It takes some courage to post this, because you open yourself up to criticism. I'm glad you were OK. What do you feel like you learned?

In my opinion, you didn't need a rescue (Monday morning quarterbacking). You weren't injured and you were using your tracking feature. Why didn't you just hike back the way you came? To your car.

"I'm feeling stuck" isn't a reason to not try. Fight your way back up the deep snow and push yourself. It seems like you were too quick to call for a rescue.

You had food, fuel (until you ran out) and your tracking.  When you need a rescue is very subjective, but I don't think you tried hard enough.

What would have done if your Garmin died before you sent the SOS? Would you sit there and die? You'd probably try to get back to your car. Use the SOS when there are no other options for self-rescue, but before you're dead. :)

Edit: I was mistaken in thinking the OP was the person in the video. Thanks, Mark!

FWIW, the OP is not the person in the YouTube clip. There's some speculation on another forum that this was whole episode was staged as a way to generate traffic to someone's YouTube channel. Here's the link if anyone wants to read through it: https://www.14ers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62349 . If it wasn't staged, I agree with FrankPS that the YouTuber should have tried a whole lot harder before pushing the button, and he made some questionable decisions in planning the whole outing. The YouTuber's attitude towards his rescuers did not impress me, either.