[pct-l] Sierra hikers misuse portable GPS trackers

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good evening, Linda,



Resistance may be futile:  If your family persists some day you may feel a
sharp pain in your hindquarters, and when you awake you’ll have a DayGlo
orange, plastic, radio collar riveted around your neck; an aluminum I.D. tag
hanging from your earlobe; a small, subcutaneous microchip at the nap of
your neck, and a large number spray-painted on your back.



All that makes SPOT seem less undesirable, huh?  At least SPOT has an “off”
switch.



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT -- 1965

 http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

 http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09



On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 1:55 PM, linda.hungerford <
linda.hungerford at comcast.net> wrote:

> All I know is every time I set foot on a trail, I give a little prayer of
> thanks that every single person in my family is way too cheap to buy me one
> of these things, or to even collectively chip in to buy one.  Way too much
> like one of those GPS tracking bracelets they lock on the ankles of
> parolees...
>
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