[pct-l] Detaching

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

I see. Well, there is a payphone at Kennedy Meadows. A cell doesn't  
work there anyway. Also Stehekin has a satellite payphone. Hard to  
talk with the time delay but it's the only phone in town. For all I  
know they've taken them out. You'll have better luck with email  
because Internet is easy to come by, sometimes free sometimes not.  
Small towns have computers in little coffeehouses and libraries.  
Maybe you can use Skype sometimes.

On Apr 4, 2013, at 7:21 PM, Ian Cranston wrote:

> It's less about detaching and more about savings...
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <
> diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:
>
>> I had planned not to bring a phone because I never carry one when
>> backpacking anyway, but I forgot to mail it to my first resupply. I
>> was just going to bounce it up the trail and use it when I got to
>> town. But it turned out to be nice to have it with me. It was just a
>> basic phone, not an iPhone. And since payphones are a lot less common
>> these days, I was glad to have it. I kept it turned off when not in
>> use and only used it when I had service and wanted to make a call. A
>> couple times I called my partner and asked him to do google searches
>> over the phone for me or to see if he could get gear replaced for me
>> before I got to the next town. Very handy. It's not so intrusive that
>> it made me feel all "attached" or took away from the wilderness
>> experience. More like it was a tool to facilitate my hike a little
>> better. It's a long time out there and just becomes ordinary life, so
>> something like a phone that's always off really isn't an intrusion at
>> all.
>>
>> On Apr 4, 2013, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>>>
>>> We are thinking of going lo-tech.  What are our options for
>>> communicating
>>> to the outside world via phone or internet without the use of  
>>> smart or
>>> stupid phones?  ... library, payphones...etc.
>>
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