Outside Magazine's article, "The Man Who Saw Too Much"

If you haven't seen this article yet, I highly recommend reading it. Here's the link: THE MAN WHO SAW TOO MUCH

Follow up from Blog:

Good Article in the Jan. 2011 edition of Outside Magazine

I thought that looked familiar

I was reading through the January Rock & Ice (R&I) magazine when I came across an article that I thought sound interesting. The article was about emergency communication devices for backcountry travelers. Naturally, my attention was piqued and I started looking at the page with interest. Then I had a feeling that I had seen something like this before and I started thinking ah ha, might be an interesting poll for the BCR site. I had read a detailed article in Lowell Skoog’s Northwest Mountaineering Journal (NWMJ) called, “Climber 9-1-1 – Should  mobile communications be mandatory?” Then the hammer dropped on my cleaver poll idea. The author of Climber 9-1-1, Rad Roberts was also the author of the R&I article. If you are an R&I subscriber, you can get a quick breakdown of the pros/cons of the different devices available. If you want the detailed version click the link above to go to the NWMJ version. There are also some nice action shots of Portland Mountain Rescue in action.

Anyway, the topic of requiring mobile communication devices in the backcountry comes and goes so there may be an article on the BCR site at some point. Last year, Washington State toyed with legislation requiring backcountry travelers going, “above tree line” to carry a mobile communication device, but I believe that legislation died in committee (thank goodness).