[at-l] "any watch will do..."

[medusaj at aol.com (medusaj@aol.com)]

You know what, on second thought, I'm with you.  Or any watch will still do, because no watch has sufficient volume to wake me up in the morning.  Have you actually found a watch with sufficient volume?  I still don't wake up at home, with a full-fledged alarm.  And it got to the point where we just turned over when the little alarm went off at 7:30 (as I recall).  Our poor, blessed sheltermates.  Actually, most of them had already hit the trail by five.
 
I've often thought that I could solve all the problems in my life if I could just manage to get up on time.
 
Shelly, if you really want nifty gadgets (and I think you do) the one thing I often wished I had was an altimeter. In my opinion, it would have been a great way to gauge mileage or even time.  It would have been really nice, when in that last stretch of an endless-feeling climb, to be able to sneak a peek at it and figure out how close I was to the top.  Even though I would still feel like I was cheating.  But it somehow seems more connected to the land to know how high you are.  No pun intended.
 
Marzipan
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:01:44 -0500
From: "David Hicks" <daveh@psknet.com>
Subject: Re: [at-l] "any watch will do..." ???
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In my case, "any watch will do..."  will not do -- as most who have camped 
(usually trail workers) with me know.  In fact, most watches will not do -- at 
less as far as my getting up late is concerned.

I have a three different watches my kids gave me because, "This one is so loud 
that it has to work."  Wrong!

The frequency used for alarms by nearly all watches is in a dead zone, for me.

So a tad of advice for anyone who even suspects that they may have some 
hearing loss -- have the store personnel set off the alarm for you before 
buying "any watch."

Chainsaw

BTW -- as this is primarily an AT list I agree that the many neat features now 
available to wear on the wrist may be fun, but fall well into the NBNN 
category, as far as the AT, itself, is concerned.  However, on other less well 
traveled,/marked trails everything from elevation to GPS can be helpful --  
very helpful in some cases.