I carry a phone. I keep it off unless I need to use it to arrange a ride and maybe occasionally let my wife know I am still living. I doubt any long distance hiker would keep a phone on to take random calls and end up with no battery power. <div>
<br></div><div>Unless you're in an area with many day hikers I think the incidence of ringing cell phones in the wilderness is exaggerated to the extreme. Far rarer than grizzly sightings and on a par with big foot apearances.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:32 PM, thomas hogeboom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thogeboom@fairpoint.net" target="_blank">thogeboom@fairpoint.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I knew it was inevitable that someday I would hear a phone ringing out on<br>
the CDT, and sure enough I did hear one ring in the Colorado Rockies in<br>
the summer of 2011. It was off-putting and unwelcome. Some of us like to<br>
tune in to the sights and sounds of the wilderness. Phones ringing and<br>
people jibbering into them is part of what I go out there to get away<br>
from.<br>
<br>
I would respectfully ask hikers who insist on carrying cell phones to<br>
simply switch the ring to vibrate. Thanks in advance for considering<br>
others!<br>
<br>
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