How would you / Do you prepare?

I look at it much like flying a plane. I spend a lot of time at remote lakes where I might see someone else every couple of weeks, or not. While I am a decent carpenter, electrician, and plumber, I have terrible mechanical skills and at my age not likely to improve much. So I try to make sure, much like a pilot, that everything is in good order before I go. Reliability is paramount for me when choosing all my gear. I always go prepared to walk out the couple of days to cell range if I have to, and I guess that equates to my parachute. And I try to remember when I get anxious about it, that there was life before cell phones, people still left the highways behind, most of them lived.