Sending Out An SOS

"bbaka" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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P.s. I never knew there was a rec.back country before this post.

Don't know what a back country is, but I sure can do without
it.

SOSman said:

What if your travel plans go wrong? What if you break a leg out on

the

Quoted message said:

trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?
http://SendingOutAnSOS.com helps you develop a travel plan before you
set out. If you don't make it back by a pre-arranged date, we send an
SOS message containing your travel intentions to your loved ones (or
other contacts). Hopefully they will come to your rescue!

DUH!!!

Even if you're using https, and I knew and trusted you, no way am I going to
place my travel plans on any system connected to the Internet wasteland.
Might as well put a "Break In Now" sign on my front door.

I'll stick with asking a trusted friend to perform this function.

(Earl)

"SOSman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

What if your travel plans go wrong? What if you break a leg out on the
trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?
http://SendingOutAnSOS.com helps you develop a travel plan before you
set out. If you don't make it back by a pre-arranged date, we send an
SOS message containing your travel intentions to your loved ones (or
other contacts). Hopefully they will come to your rescue!

Mike Romain said:

Ya, that sounds just like a new twist on the old 'ticket' scam. They
mailed hard to find sports tickets out to folks and cleaned out their

So do the experiment. Sign up, notify them of your Everest expedition,
and hang out in the basement with your 12 gauge.

HTH,
Shawn

On 1 May 2005 19:11:06 -0700, "SOSman" <[email hidden]> wrote in
message <[email hidden]>:

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What if your travel plans go wrong? What if you break a leg out on the
trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?
http://spammingbastard.com helps you develop a travel plan before you
set out. If you don't make it back by a pre-arranged date, we send an
SOS message containing your travel intentions to your loved ones

Something which hill walkers and cyclists have been managing to do
since time immemorial without the need to pay spammers.

Guy
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May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound

SOSman said:

What if your travel plans go wrong? What if you break a leg out on

the

Quoted message said:

trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?
http://SendingOutAnSOS.com helps you develop a travel plan before you
set out. If you don't make it back by a pre-arranged date, we send an
SOS message containing your travel intentions to your loved ones (or
other contacts). Hopefully they will come to your rescue!

What if I just send my travel plan to my loved ones before I go?
Wouldn't that be simpler?

PeterL said:

SOSman wrote:
Hopefully they will come...

In the States, at least, you can rent a GPS phone with a panic button that
summons rescuers to your location. Nice for traveling the back country
solo.
-S-

What................

ya can't drag yerself out??

Wussy............

"SOSman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

What if your travel plans go wrong? What if you break a leg out on the
trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?
http://SendingOutAnSOS.com helps you develop a travel plan before you
set out. If you don't make it back by a pre-arranged date, we send an
SOS message containing your travel intentions to your loved ones (or
other contacts). Hopefully they will come to your rescue!

In article <[email hidden]>, Stuart Hofmann says...

Quoted message said:

PeterL said:

SOSman wrote:
Hopefully they will come...

In the States, at least, you can rent a GPS phone with a panic button that
summons rescuers to your location. Nice for traveling the back country
solo.
-S-

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Satellite phone for Rent....

http://www.travelbygps.com/articles/satphones.php

JD

Fabrizio Mazzoleni said:

"bbaka" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

P.s. I never knew there was a rec.back country before this post.

Don't know what a back country is, but I sure can do without
it.

It is a country with no designer clothing stores. Where people where
hunting caps and carry big guns and own very big dogs.

Maggie

Earl Jacksboro said:

Even if you're using https, and I knew and trusted you, no way am I going

to

Quoted message said:

place my travel plans on any system connected to the Internet wasteland.
Might as well put a "Break In Now" sign on my front door.

I'll stick with asking a trusted friend to perform this function.

I was thinking the same thing. It's also the reason I don't leavew
wilderness permits in any unlocked receptacle. I've opened them up and
found literally dozens of nice juicy bits of peoples lives, their addresses,
and their full itineries; it's a veritable goldmine for thievery.

Jon

"Stuart Hofmann"

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PeterL said:

SOSman wrote:
Hopefully they will come...

In the States, at least, you can rent a GPS phone with a panic button that
summons rescuers to your location. Nice for traveling the back country
solo.

Is it okay to press the panic button when I run out of TP?

Jon

Jon Danniken said:

Is it okay to press the panic button when I run out of TP?

If you don't mind paying the bill.
-S-

In article <[email hidden]>,

Jon Danniken said:

"Stuart Hofmann"

Quoted message said:

PeterL said:

SOSman wrote:
Hopefully they will come...

In the States, at least, you can rent a GPS phone with a panic button that
summons rescuers to your location. Nice for traveling the back country
solo.

Is it okay to press the panic button when I run out of TP?

Jon

No, it is only "Ok:" for you to press the "Panic Button" with
your "LAST Dying Breath", and then you better be dead when they
find you. Otherwise your just another Trail Woosie.....

Me

"Maggie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

It is a country with no designer clothing stores. Where people where
hunting caps and carry big guns and own very big dogs.

That sounds like a WalMart type store where the common
people go. I have used the parking lot at those kinds of
stores before to begin road rides, but would never enter
one.

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Bill Baka said:

I never knew there was a rec.backcountry before this post.

Fritz M said:

It used to be a worthwhile place to discuss backcountry recreation.

You left before you and your son got invited to Haiyaha.

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Now it's overrun with off-topic political vomit.

The core members are still there.

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I think M.V. likes to hang out there also.

Yes, as always.

Ed Huesers
http://www.grandshelters.com

Fabrizio Mazzoleni said:

"Maggie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

It is a country with no designer clothing stores. Where people

where

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

hunting caps and carry big guns and own very big dogs.

That sounds like a WalMart type store where the common
people go. I have used the parking lot at those kinds of
stores before to begin road rides, but would never enter
one.

I entered one out in Missouri about 10 years ago. I had never heard of
Walmart before, because they had not come east yet. I felt like I was
in the twilight zone when I walked in. The old men were playing
checkers and wearing hunting caps. I still have nightmares.

I am leaving for Lake Tahoe Tomorrow and my little niece LOVES
Walmart.....so I must bite the bullet and take her there to pick out a
toy.

Maggie.

Earl Jacksboro said:

Even if you're using https, and I knew and trusted you, no way am I going to
place my travel plans on any system connected to the Internet wasteland.
Might as well put a "Break In Now" sign on my front door.

Yeah, makes a lot more sense to inform a close, trusted friend of your
travel plans. Besides, the way some people check their email it could be
days before it's received, if it doesn't get recycled by the spam
filters. Also, think about all the travelers who forget to turn the
alarm off when they return home, resulting in false alarms going out. A
problematic 'solution' all 'round.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Spehro Pefhany said:

On Tue, 03 May 2005 22:51:10 GMT, the renowned Me <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Jon Danniken said:

"Stuart Hofmann"
> PeterL wrote:
>
> > SOSman wrote:
> > Hopefully they will come...
>
> In the States, at least, you can rent a GPS phone with a panic button
> that
> summons rescuers to your location. Nice for traveling the back country
> solo.

Is it okay to press the panic button when I run out of TP?

Jon

No, it is only "Ok:" for you to press the "Panic Button" with
your "LAST Dying Breath", and then you better be dead when they
find you. Otherwise your just another Trail Woosie.....

Me

Our survival instructor always drilled into us that it was better to
be judged by twelve than carried by six.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

If you had to take a course to learn how to survive, then you,
by definition, are a "Trail Woosie". Most folks have an embred
Survival Instinct, and don't need to be instructed on how.

Me