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Moonarie - Worth bringing a Sat phone? |
12-Mar-2009 At 9:08:41 PM |
singersmith
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The disconnect between the two notions of a wilderness experience that I have seen expressed here
are so great that in my opinion it's not even a topic really worth discussing; the infection of electronic
devices in the wilderness is presumably only going to get worse, uh I mean more prevalent, so just I
just look away and do my own thing. These two kinds of people should just (and generally do) avoid
each other. Personally, if I ran into a party at the base of a crag like Moonarie and they had a sat
phone I would politely put as much physical distance between my climbing outing and theirs as I
possibly could. I don't want to become an unwilling participant in someone else's epic and I view
carrying a sat phone as being way out of your league on about 85% of the surface of the earth.
On the other hand, I'm a free-soloist because I think leader falls are both frightening and hazardous
and I consider myself to increase my margin of safety by relying solely on myself rather than on gear,
communication, or a rescue. Planning for rescue is planning for failure and failure in a vertical
environment is often a really bad thing. Climb well within your abilities, don't be a hero. In climbing
you're either going for it or you're not: if you are then there's no sat phone; if you're not then you're
supposed to be taking it easy and that means staying well within your own personal safety zone.
Maybe I could climb grade 30 but I could seriously care less, I'd rather safely enjoy climbing in the
teens all day long and all by myself.
One guy's opinion. |
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