[pct-l] SPOT

[RJ Lewis]

If they upgraded the chip to the SIRF chip that they use in the better 
GPS units, it may be a much more useful tool, vs a "toy" as many feel it 
is now, myself included- a very heavy (8oz) and expensive (with all 
those subscriptions), toy at that. If you get stranded, or injured in 
the trees or in a canyon, yer screwed with a SPOT, plain and simple. I 
think it offers a false sense of security to many average hikers, and 
that's  not necessarily a good thing. Just my 2 cents.


Hiker97 at aol.com wrote:
> I just got back from the eastern Sierras road trip.  Can'tQuit told me  she 
> is very happy with the SPOT.  She sends a signal everyday to her  husband in 
> Phoenix to tell him she is okay and where she is at.  The family  looks up on 
> Goggle Earth and locates where she is camping.  This is kind of  neat.
>  
> Like everyone says, it may not work 100% of the time.  I hope they  come out 
> with a lighter and smaller model.
>  
> Cheers, Switchback
> PS: When I went over to Lone Pine Friday, it was 118 degrees in Death  
> Valley.  But Piney, the PCT hybrid support vehicle, did fine.  The  meal Friday 
> night with Can'tQuit and her sister after they came off the PCT was  super at the 
> Merry-Go-Round.  I had the salmon dinner.  :-)
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