[AT] (OT) Satellite Tracking was Warning and apology.

[Bob McNitt]

While I'm on the subject I'd like to remind you that if it wasn't for idiots 
going into the back country with no supplies nor survival skills, the search 
and rescue teams would have to pay someone to "get lost" out there so they 
can practice.    Several don't charge more than expenses (waived if you can't 
pay) just because they need the practice.

After nearly four decades as an outdoor writer and magazine editor, I agree with Henry's observation. Each generation is becoming increasingly less skilled or observant when entering the real natural world of big woods, swamps and mountains. Few know how to use a compass and topo map properly, and many still don't realize that a handheld GPS, being an electronic, can fail. Total out-of-shape nimrods head off into "wilderness" without adequate experience, gear, precautions, and no concern of the potential weather changes. I've see so many reports of stranded/disabled/lost "adventurers" (the majority being life-long city or suburban dwellers) that I grimace when I read or hear of another account. Some were lucky and found cell phone capacity in their dire location, others were not. People are increasingly becoming disconnected with the outdoor world, and that ignorance often shows up when a hiker, hunter, skier, snowmobiler, boater, etc. needs to be "rescued." Or they come to depend on a GPS emergency locator device to be "saved." As the old saying among seasoned outdoorsmen goes, "There's not much 'motherly' about Mother Nature."