Leaving technology behind

[vvanders]

No cell phones work in the mountains here after a few km from the highway. Unless you got a good line of sight out to the highways from a distant mountain.

That's why ham radio is nice to have in the back country. With a 5W(about 5-10x more power than your cell phone) handheld I can hit a repeater 100mi+ away if I'm up on a mountain and have line of sight to it. Both our car and truck have 40W mobiles that I can also turn into a cross-band repeater to get coverage down into an area if I wanted too.

Built on the same stuff your Fire/EMS/Police use to communicate in the field(both 2 meter and newer DMR/digital stuff).

Like has been said, you should know what you're doing before heading off into the wilderness but it doesn't hurt to have a little extra bit of insurance.

 

[VroomVroom]

Its not only about knowing where you are up here. There are fjords and gulches here that you could drop over if whiteout conditions persist.

 

[VroomVroom]

 

[VroomVroom]

This is why sometimes technology is helpful. But I'm old fashion despite not being that old. I dislike logging roads, despite having built some myself , It opens parts of the country up that only the determined could see. the same with gps's. But they can be useful too.

 

[Jstpssng]

This is why sometimes technology is helpful. But I'm old fashion despite not being that old. I dislike logging roads, despite having built some myself , It opens parts of the country up that only the determined could see. the same with gps's. But they can be useful too.

I don't think that I could walk 5 miles in this state without hitting some kind of a road. You guys are fortunate and have a lot more open ground. One thing about using GPS in the woods though; a lot of the software is based on old topo maps and show "roads" which haven't been used in decades; at one time they would have been labeled "Jeep trails." I've found items in the woods which seemed out of place; an old campsite, or a big chunk of coal; only to look at my GPS and have it show that I'm standing on a road.

 

[cqaigy2]

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Pretty pictures! Are you pointing at a cell tower? :laughing:

 

[cqaigy2]

My boss has learned not to ask if there is cell reception when i go out for a walk for a few days. BTW there isn't.

 

[bunyip]

My dear wife has a mobile phone but I wonder why as it is either flat or somewhere where she isn't.
She used to turn it off when she wasn't using it to save the battery until one day when she locked her keys in her car and asked me to bring out the spare set then nhung up, she called me back two hours later to find out why I hadn't dropped them off and I told her I didn't know where she was and I couldn't call her and find out as she had turned the phone off.

 

[VroomVroom]

Ha. Guess she’ll remember next time.

No cell tower there. But I could sled over two miles and look down on home from that location. There’s s hole there about 1000 feet deep

 

[cqaigy2]

Ha. Guess she’ll remember next time.

No cell tower there. But I could sled over two miles and look down on home from that location. There’s s hole there about 1000 feet deep

Pretty cool picture.