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Posted by f_klock on February 24, 2008 at 8:38:49 am EST
In reply to What's in Your Survival Kit? posted by Alicia on July 2, 2007 at 10:55:02 am EDT

"Around here cell phones are as usefull as a electric hair drier in the wild... no service at all."

Are you sure?

Remember the story of the climbers on Mt. Hood? Location was narrowed down by them turning a cell phone on an off. The act 'pings' towers even when there is no useable service. The tower pings can be triangulated to get a rough fix on phone location. With the help of the phone company, our search team used the same technology to locate a man in a maze of strip mines and ravines here in PA.

Also, check out my post, on the Outdoor Incidents board, about the Germans who used their cell phone display to light up the FLIR on a search helo.

If you're freezing to death, with no matches or lighter, you could use the cell battery to creat a spark to start a fire - I wish I had a dollar for every time I said/wrote that statement.

IMO, never discount anything. In an emergency, try everything.

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