futurafree
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True, but it's also common sense to use the tech available to help make you more safe. This includes map, compass, proper traction and insulation, etc... and in many situations, a PLB or inreach or the like.Too much reliance on tech to solve the problem of no or little common sense
No way I'm switching to an "i" anything so I'll continue using my inReach.Now that the Emergency SOS via satellite functionality on the latest iPhones has now been available for over a year, does it appear that PLBs are becoming more obsolete, are do people still prefer to use the 'traditional' technology ?
Personal locator beacon.... Push the button and search and rescue will come save you.. Only take my phone to text the wife occasionally, she likes to see where I'm at according to a map I leave her.. Have a satellite attachment. Yes cell phones have ruined a lot.What is PLB? I just have a little flip phone. And also often I go without a phone period. Think life and everything was better before all of these phones were around. Am an oldster I guess. Plus the mountain men of old never had any freaking phones.
Yep. But they also got lost quite a bit. Just managed to get themselves to where they wanted to go eventually. One account is recorded by Osborne Russell: the leader thought the Wind River was leading to the Yellowstone. Some of the men said he was wrong. Russell and another climbed Ramshorn Peak, reckoned where they were. The company then proceeded down to the Stinking River (S. Fork of the Shoshone) then up to Yellowstone. Even Jed Smith got "misplaced" several times.Plus the mountain men of old never had any freaking phones.
Hold on, isn't this just a rephrasing of the "not all who wander are lost" saying that you detest and have in your signature?You're only lost if you think you are.... Mostly they just wandered
SAR may beg to differ! Haha. We've had people get lost and call SAR on the M Trail here in Bozeman, where you can see town from just about every point on the trail and you have cell service and can easily use standard GPS apps. Stuff like that has made it so I never underestimate how unprepared/ignorant people can be.going into the woods with getting lost On Purpose might be a very good thing!
Oh I just meant that search and rescue organizations (like Gallatin County SAR) are getting more and more calls as it is, so I was joking that people intentionally going out and getting lost in the woods would further increase search and rescue organizations' workload. Haha.Jackson, SAR can disagree all they want. But freedom is freedom and as Thomas Jefferson said on Rebellion to Tyrants is Obediance to God. Yes many unprepared or ignorant people out there these days. But that does not mean I have to be tracked everywhere I go in the woods also. What about again our freedoms and not letting the elites dictate for us where to go or what to do. Am an oldster I guess in more ways then one. And love just going into the wilds with living as in days gone by.
Best to Everyone!
Maybe it doesnt even work ?!?Without my inReach Mini I'd probably be getting barely a dozen bag nights instead of almost a hundred - love that damn thing so much.
More on topic: I haven't seen anything from the newer phones that says they compete with a proper GPS communicator yet - though I'm sure it's coming.