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It isn't clear the hiker even wanted a rescue, they ultimately reached safety on their own accord. I've gone into the back country many times where getting hun
by Fricken 3y ago
It isn't clear the hiker even wanted a rescue, they ultimately reached safety on their own accord.
I've gone into the back country many times where getting hung up in some way, going off-route, or even an ankle sprain could lead to the possibility of an uncomfortable bivy. It's something I consider acceptable risk. I'm not going to call for help unless I believe it's a life or death situation.
- em-bee 3y agothat's what i thought. if he actually needed help he would have been able to call. but the real failure here is that phone technology is still so bad that it is not possible to reliably identify callers. caller-id exists, but feels like a hack, is not working relibaly, and is spoofable. is there no way to have a trustable registry of numbers (not all of them but say any service that legitimately needs to be able to cold-call people) that can be built into every phone? a whitelist of known numbers?