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I have that use case. I often go bushwalking and always text my wife from the trailhead to let her know which track I'm going to be on. This product is a much
by davidbanham 10y ago
I have that use case. I often go bushwalking and always text my wife from the trailhead to let her know which track I'm going to be on.
This product is a much better version of that system. It's impervious to me forgetting to send the text and gives an accurate location rather than "somewhere in the general area served by this trailhead".
- literallycancer 10y agoI'm often hiking too and my battery almost always dies halfway through. If my family members were to initiate a rescue effort anytime they can't reach me, I'd probably have to stop doing anything. Then again, I'm in Europe, so crime rates are virtually zero, and the only risk is spraining an ankle or something.
- int_19h 10y agoI like convenience of having the GPS, so I carry a battery pack for the phone. I'm also paranoid, so I carry a Cospas-Sarsat PLB as well. But you need to be conscious, and have at least one arm working, to activate that. Hikes can still be dangerous, especially in the mountains. Hereabouts, pretty much every year several people get seriously injured on one of the trails, usually by tripping and falling down the slope; and in most years, there's at least one fatality. Usually it's because people veer off the trail or do something similarly dangerous, but sometimes it's just dangerous conditions (e.g. ice) on regular, well-maintained trails that are normally safe, or just bad luck. Better safe than sorry.