[pct-l] SPOT

[patti kulesz]

yeh it's a great device I'm getting one next year when i do the PCT!

patti

--- On Thu, 8/7/08, Karen Lafferty <lafferty1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Karen Lafferty <lafferty1 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [pct-l] SPOT
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 8:46 PM

We used SPOT on our hike from Tuolumne Meadows down to LeConte Canyon.  The
SPOT we used can only be programed for a few people to receive the satelite
message.    We sent messages twice a day to let our husbands know where we
were and the message told them that we were ok.  There are several other
buttons, one to let the receiver of the message know that we are in trouble and
need help and one for a 911.
While stopped at a ranger station, the ranger was telling us of an incident in
which a young man had had his appendix rupture.  By using his 911 button, after
several hours of trying to locate him, he was helicoptered out.  
It took 20 to 30 minutes for the SPOT to find the satelite and send the
messages back to our husbands.  Our husbands knew where we were at least twice
a day.
Karen L.
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