Re: [at-l] Cell Phones revistied

[Brick Robbins <brick@fastpack.com>]

At 09:55 AM 5/13/00 , you wrote:
>Why a cell-phone? We are all aware of the lack of reliability, and in
>Marges' case, it would have ( probably ) been out of the question for
>her to get to a high-point in hopes of getting the transmission to a
>cell-tower.

I am not passing judgement on cell phones, just relaying the statements of 
someone who lived through a real emergency, and wished they had one.

Actually, where she was, a cell phone would have worked just fine. The PCT 
is almost always ON the "high-point."  Cell phones work OK on the first 400 
miles of the PCT where it stays on the mountain spine above urban Southern 
California. She was line of site with an interstate, 8000 ft above Palm 
Springs.

Once a hiker hits the Sierra, time to chuck the cell phone......

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