[at-l] Emergency notifications

[bcalkins@disaster-relief.net (Bruce Calkins)]

A Beeper is a possibility. I have carried a simple numeric only one with a
set of number codes to give proper urgency to the message.
Black Wolfe


At 02:01 PM 4/19/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm heading out for my fourth May-long hike (actually beginning April 30th),
>hoping to hike from Montebello, VA to Port Clinton, PA.  My father-in-law is
>now 94 years old, and in fairly poor health.  Other than what I'm listing
>below, does anyone have some good suggestions on the quickest way my wife
>can get a message to me in case there is a death in the family?  BTW, I'm
>not taking a cell phone.
>
>1.  Leave a good hiking agenda with my wife so she will know where I'm
>planning to be on any given night.
>
>2.  Check in back home whenever I pass an available phone.
>
>3.  Have her contact the ATC  to get assistance in trying to contact me.
>
>4.  Have my son, who lives in Manassas, VA, be available to drive to a
>"cut-off" point to try to intercept me.
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