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Re: 'SPOT' with texts

Call me a miserable old traditionalist, but I like the idea of nobody knowing where I am. The thought of someone tracking my every step is horrible. I mean, I expect it in "Civilisation" where my phone, car, credit cards etc betray and deny any last vestige of privacy, but out in the hills I want to pretend that I'm the only person left on the entire planet (.... apart from the bloke driving the JCB digging the road for the new windfarm, of course.)

Re: 'SPOT' with texts

Can I be in your camp too, Judith?

The fleshpots are for the socialising and the hill is for the wild, back to basics stuff of sheer "nobodyness."

Re: 'SPOT' with texts

I can relate to those thoughts Judith, however I also would point out that some of us have worryworts at home and the Spot devices give us freedom to roam we have not enjoyed in the past.

You can still get lost with a Spot, but you're the only one who is lost - everyone else knows exactly where you are. :)

Re: 'SPOT' with texts

AussieMike


You can still get lost with a Spot, but you're the only one who is lost - everyone else knows exactly where you are. :)


Ha! That's like being a hamster in a cage .... although it could make for an entertaining reality TV programme.

Re: 'SPOT' with texts

I agree Judith. If $hit is going to happen it is going to happen.
And they are more expensive than my tent.
Also I don't want to be tracked across Scotland.
Not that anyone back here would track me.
Anyway according to Mr Slomans blog, I spent 2011 challenge in a pole dancing club in Euston dressed as a lady.

Re: 'SPOT' with texts

Andrew W
Anyway according to Mr Slomans blog, I spent 2011 challenge in a pole dancing club in Euston


I'll let everyone make their own mind up:



Re: 'SPOT' with texts

Well, at least I have lost weight since then.
We'll not go into how.
Amazingly Mr S.
The secret code to post this mail was
FUXU.
I couldn't have made it up

Re: 'SPOT' with texts

alan.sloman
Can I be in your camp too, Judith?



Noooo! It's my camp. Go and camp somewhere else!

Re: 'SPOT' with texts

Sorry folks, I don't mean to offend anyone but I’m not in your camp on this one, should things go **** up out on the hills you can be almost certain that it will happen where there is no phone signal, they only place the masts to serve the areas of population, we go in the areas that are not populated. The thought of an acute incident that is life threatening, be it an AMI, Appendicitis or something requiring the need for treatment or urgent admission to hospital, delay is going to be costly to you and to the people that come to get you. If your signal is too weak to make a voice call or even send a Text they may have to triangulate your position from the signal of the emergency call you made to narrow down the area that you are in, that takes time, the search area size is dependent on how many masts pick up your signal, the fewer, the larger the area is. The very reason that you are making that call means you want to get out of that situation fast and not have to sit and wait for search teams to find you. All for the weight of 147g and about the same in shekels.

Re: 'SPOT' with texts

I thought this was The Great Outdoors Challenge ?.
A "self supported" back packing event from West Coast
to East Coast. What with accommodation lists, Sat Navs. Spot
devices . You will not get the Challenge feel surrounded
by all the clutter of civilization or other challengers,
it will just be a long distance walk from "watering hole"
to the next "watering hole". Has as already been said it's
one of the few times in the year you can be free of all
the clutter. Cheers. (Yes, I too am a traditionalist.)