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PSA: My $400 satellite messenger felt like a waste until a wrong turn in the Wind River Range last fall.
I was off my planned route by about two miles in thick timber, and hitting that SOS button to get a simple GPS coordinate check from the rescue center saved me hours of bushwhacking and real worry.
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spencer_chen67h ago
Wait, you were only two miles off? That's it? I pictured you being totally lost in some canyon for days. Two miles in thick trees does sound awful to get turned around in though, I guess that's still a long way to be wrong. Makes sense you'd want a check-in before it got worse. Still, for some reason I thought these things were only for, like, broken leg emergencies.
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lilycraig15m ago
Yeah spencer_chen6, two miles in dense bush is no joke. Better to call before you're actually screwed.
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