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[at-l] Hikers Rescued thanks to Cell Phone



At 11:04 AM 1/9/2005 -0600, Shane Steinkamp wrote:
>"They hiked a long way in very cold conditions," said Nelson Trichler,
>Search and Rescue incident commander. "If (Degner) didn't have his
>cell phone it wouldn't have been a rescue. It would have been a (body)
>recovery."
>
>Degner, a recent UCSB graduate, and Krier, a student at Chaminade
>University in Honolulu, said they likely would hike again soon.
>
>"Next time, maybe we'll be more prepared, more ready for the
>unexpected," Krier said.

And they won't need the cell phone which is (at best) a poor substitute for 
being prepared.