[pct-l] Pocketmail out of stock until end of April

[Ken Powers]

I'm not sure that this affects the PCT towns yet, but we found many small 
communities that no longer have pay phones along the ADT. We even found 
small motels didn't necessarily offer phones in the rooms. We had ask to use 
phones in restaurants or stores. That worked for us, but we were the only 
hikers on the trail. If everyone on the PCT asked to use a store's phone the 
owners might object. With all the cell phones out there, the life of the pay 
phone is coming to an end.

Ken
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Stanton" <craigstanton at mac.com>
To: "pctlist MailingList" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Pocketmail out of stock until end of April


I'm using a similar solution for my next trip (http://
onemanwalking.com). A Nokia N810 which has a built in keyboard and
BlueTooth. But I don't think I would have used it on the PCT without
a separate cellphone to help me transmit from smaller places which
you'd come across a lot. Take Tuolumne Meadows for example, you're
not going to get WiFi there, but I saw people using cellphones. The
beauty of Pocketmail is the coverage of landlines in every town you
reach, so if you can wait until then you're fine. But if you're just
busting to send emails every night (along with photos though that'll
take ages) a palm-top computer and tethered phone is the way to go
for now.


~Craig

On 26/01/2008, at 8:25 AM, Judith G wrote:

> I met a bicyclist who was cycling cross-country last year and he
> showed me the device he was using to keep a journal at
> CrazyGuyOnABike.com.  It was a small computer (size of a deck of
> cards) with a separate folding keyboard.  The keyboard "spoke" to the
> computer via BlueTooth, and he would use it in his tent every night
> to do his daily journaling.  Then when he was someplace with WiFi
> (library, motel, Starbucks, etc.) his tiny computer would upload to
> the internet.  Whatimpressed me was that the the folding keyboard
> opened up to full size, which looked a whole lot easier to type on
> than a PocketMail device.  I have never used either one, but I did
> follow his journal as he continued his trip so it seemed to work for
> him.  These are the components he used:
>
>> My computer is an H.P. iPAQ 5915 and the keyboard is a Think
>> Outside blue tooth jobbie, I don't know the model number offhand.
>
> I don't know that this will completely translate over into the PCT
> hiker world, but I thought I'd mention it in case someone is looking
> for an alternative to Pocketmail.  The keyboard seems to work with
> many different types of "computer" devices, including "smart
> phones."  Again, I don't have one and just trying to compose a
> literate email describing what I saw has exhausted my pitiful fund of
> knowledge about such things.
>
> Two Legs
>
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