Re: [at-l] Earl Schaeffer

["E. George Oeser" <george@oeser.net>]

At 10:56 AM 7/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
>do not want to open any sores but the latest trailway news had a
>blurb about Earls current hike and mentioned that he carries one
>of those C word devices.  It seems that the gear he carried in
>his first go would not SUFFICE today. There was also an article
>about a rescue in which the C word device played a role but in 
>that particular case, the rescue would have happened anyway.
>Rich
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From what I have heard Earl started off with a cell phone because one or
more of his relatives thought it would be best if he carried it, he seemd
to disagree as he sent it home with in the first week of his hike. He
apparently thought it's value in no way matched it's weight and so he got
rid of it.

E. George Oeser

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