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inReachSE has texting, real advantage to keep temperatures cool at home i.e. not an emergency but I'll spend the night at the camp or snug in the plane and will try to get home tomorrow. I kept my SPOT. My son used my inReach last month sailing Halifax to Guadaloupe via Bermuda. A strong instinct for safety is No. 1 in making things pleasurable.

I am happy the outcome for this hunter turned out as well as it did. I think it is a good reminder for me and all of us that we need to guard against becoming complacent. Be Safe..

WBLDon

He was a lucky man. Like him I too have done a lot of things hunting that in hind sight we're not safe, not smart and which I would prevent me kids from doing today. Like busting through several inches thick ice on the Nanticoke river to get to a shore blind with the temps 10-20 below zero. Or hunting in Alaska for a Moose, with a .270, when even a child should know Brown Bears were nearby. Or going out into the Cheasapke Bay, in a small gale, so bad I had to use a 32' cabin cruiser to pull my john boat to an island I owned to shoot redheads and cans. Weather was so bad but had to stay three days before I could come back in. Killed a lot of ducks but was lucky to not die doing it. Like I said more lucky than smart.

I read about this coming home from Pennsy yesterday. Easy to forget about how hard mother nature can sometimes be. This fellow should have known better, but we all could easily do this. It's a form of denial, I suppose, that we aren't as spry as we used to be. And...we foolishly tend to rely on things like cellphones (and 4x4s, and GPS!) to get us out of trouble. As the old saying goes, no fool like an old fool.

I like to call it complacency.

To me word tough defines foot soldier of Special Operations Command. These guys are true "dangerous game hunters". They get the most dangerous assignments which takes great deal of intelligence, guts and I suspect little measure of craziness. That CQB against determined adversary would scare the living shit out of me.