Mike134 wrote:
We went on a 2 week canoe trip in the Boundary waters back in '75 No way to contact us or find us. We just crossed our fingers when we got back everyone would still be there. Can you imagine what our grandparents/great grandparents went though sending their sons to war and no contact not even a letter for 6 months?
Yeah folks are just a bit to wrapped up in the idea of "cell phone security"
The local radio station in Ely use to broadcast messages to people in remote areas of the Boundary Waters without communication.