Satphone experiences...
never used one. Any real issues you would need to be aware of?
Forum Discussion
What happens if you lose your power source, if the electronic rescue crutch breaks, can you self rescue?
What happened to us? Afraid to Adventure?
John Muir, Danial Boone, Lewis and Clark, Columbus... what if they hadn't explored? They didn't have a map... or any idea what was over that mountain... or accross that ocean.
If they'd been afraid to venture where would we be.
My first camping trip was before WW II... my family were adventurers... they taught us how to depend on ourselves for survival.
I was in the woods every day, after school, weekends, holidays... learning to navigate by the sun, and shadows... sometimes the moon. I never carried a compass... GPS... what's that. What do you do when the batteries in your GPS fail or you drop it and break it?
By the time I was 10 years old my Xmas was a Mossberg bolt action, 410 shotgun... a realitively safe gun... you could see where the shot landed (not so with a 22 cal.) It was perfect for hunting squirrels and rabbits... we were meat hunters... no sport in that. Now people carry hand guns... they'ed starve to death if they had to depend on what they could hit with them.
How many people hurt themselves when in the back country... distracted hiking or four wheeling... looking at the screen... checking their signal.
Yes, I'm getting old... our 6 man whitewater raft with all of the helmets, paddles, life jackets doesn't get used... we go to museums and art gallerys and the beaches now... parking where ever... but still exploring new things...
Some of our critics "camp" in RV parking lots, with their outside lights on all night, sitting under their awnings, comparing the height of their flagpoles (lightnig attracters). Or getting on their computers to correct peoples spelling or telling them how to blog (about the campgrounds they have been too)
My family... we still have our memories of explorations all over North America... and we are still making new and different memories for months at a time every year.
Electronic Gizmo's... Ha! Many people do things in groups (some for percieved safety) and everyone has electronic (save me) devices...
To have my rescue on TV news, Newspapers, Facebook... OMG... it would let people know that I couldn't take care of myself.
...I'd be embarressed if I got lost or on the wrong side of a flooded river... or caught in a snow storm and had to have the tax paying citizens have to pay for my resecue.
What happened to adventure?
Emergencies at home... what about our submariners when they have emergencies at home? Anything that is an emergency will have been taken care of by the time you get home...
$1200 for a months phone bill... what could you possibly have to say worth $1200... when did you find time for the adventure that you were supposedly on?
I'm not lost... but I think a lot of people are!
Sleepy
What happened to us? Afraid to Adventure?
John Muir, Danial Boone, Lewis and Clark, Columbus... what if they hadn't explored? They didn't have a map... or any idea what was over that mountain... or accross that ocean.
If they'd been afraid to venture where would we be.
My first camping trip was before WW II... my family were adventurers... they taught us how to depend on ourselves for survival.
I was in the woods every day, after school, weekends, holidays... learning to navigate by the sun, and shadows... sometimes the moon. I never carried a compass... GPS... what's that. What do you do when the batteries in your GPS fail or you drop it and break it?
By the time I was 10 years old my Xmas was a Mossberg bolt action, 410 shotgun... a realitively safe gun... you could see where the shot landed (not so with a 22 cal.) It was perfect for hunting squirrels and rabbits... we were meat hunters... no sport in that. Now people carry hand guns... they'ed starve to death if they had to depend on what they could hit with them.
How many people hurt themselves when in the back country... distracted hiking or four wheeling... looking at the screen... checking their signal.
Yes, I'm getting old... our 6 man whitewater raft with all of the helmets, paddles, life jackets doesn't get used... we go to museums and art gallerys and the beaches now... parking where ever... but still exploring new things...
Some of our critics "camp" in RV parking lots, with their outside lights on all night, sitting under their awnings, comparing the height of their flagpoles (lightnig attracters). Or getting on their computers to correct peoples spelling or telling them how to blog (about the campgrounds they have been too)
My family... we still have our memories of explorations all over North America... and we are still making new and different memories for months at a time every year.
Electronic Gizmo's... Ha! Many people do things in groups (some for percieved safety) and everyone has electronic (save me) devices...
To have my rescue on TV news, Newspapers, Facebook... OMG... it would let people know that I couldn't take care of myself.
...I'd be embarressed if I got lost or on the wrong side of a flooded river... or caught in a snow storm and had to have the tax paying citizens have to pay for my resecue.
What happened to adventure?
Emergencies at home... what about our submariners when they have emergencies at home? Anything that is an emergency will have been taken care of by the time you get home...
$1200 for a months phone bill... what could you possibly have to say worth $1200... when did you find time for the adventure that you were supposedly on?
I'm not lost... but I think a lot of people are!
Sleepy
