National parks balancing demands for cell service, silence
National parks balancing demands for cell service, silence
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Perhaps cell service will help you.
We ran a CG in the Black Hills for a couple of years. Yeah, I know, not a National Park but pretty remote in some areas. First warm day of Spring this couple and their son were hiking along some pretty rough area and climbing up some ledges. As the son reached up over his head to pull up on the next ledge, a rattlesnake, just out of hibernation bit him on the arm. He took a major load of venom in the bite. It was pure luck but there was a cell signal in a very small area of the park. Mom was able to make an emergency call and get help enroute from Rapid. Again, the phone had a GPS capability and she gave the coordinates to the helo and it was able to fly directly to them. The child was in pretty bad shape by the time he was back to the hospital in Rapid, but he survived and recovered.
He was saved because of technology that reached an area is not usually covered. Personally, I thnk it might have been more devine intervention but had that signal not been in that area, there would have been a recovery rather than a rescue.
We ran a CG in the Black Hills for a couple of years. Yeah, I know, not a National Park but pretty remote in some areas. First warm day of Spring this couple and their son were hiking along some pretty rough area and climbing up some ledges. As the son reached up over his head to pull up on the next ledge, a rattlesnake, just out of hibernation bit him on the arm. He took a major load of venom in the bite. It was pure luck but there was a cell signal in a very small area of the park. Mom was able to make an emergency call and get help enroute from Rapid. Again, the phone had a GPS capability and she gave the coordinates to the helo and it was able to fly directly to them. The child was in pretty bad shape by the time he was back to the hospital in Rapid, but he survived and recovered.
He was saved because of technology that reached an area is not usually covered. Personally, I thnk it might have been more devine intervention but had that signal not been in that area, there would have been a recovery rather than a rescue.
