I just ordered a SPOT II off of Amazon, $66 with shipping. I didn't see the need to go with the newer SPOT 3, I won't be tracking, I will just get the $99 plan.
I never really wanted one, but as we age, things change. Last fall while I was deer hunting behind my home on private land, I realized it was about time to have a safety backup. The forest back there is 2 miles x 4 miles and it could take a search party a while to find me. Not the young gun and bullet proof I always thought I was anymore. I probably never was, just lucky and careful.
I am planning a solo trip this spring, sometime in May for about 7 days, then in August I'm going to do a solo 100 mile circuit on crown land in Northern Ontario which I hope to stretch a 7 day trip into 2 weeks for fishing and exploring.
Then in the fall, I'll be back into Low's lake in the ADK's for a week long solo deer hunt out of my canoe (last week of October) Then back home in November to deer hunt my home woods, again solo.
That adds up to about 35 days out there, some of it really out there, so for the initial $165 for the first year and only $99 a year thereafter, I'm going to give my wife and myself piece of mind.
I never really wanted one, but as we age, things change. Last fall while I was deer hunting behind my home on private land, I realized it was about time to have a safety backup. The forest back there is 2 miles x 4 miles and it could take a search party a while to find me. Not the young gun and bullet proof I always thought I was anymore. I probably never was, just lucky and careful.
I am planning a solo trip this spring, sometime in May for about 7 days, then in August I'm going to do a solo 100 mile circuit on crown land in Northern Ontario which I hope to stretch a 7 day trip into 2 weeks for fishing and exploring.
Then in the fall, I'll be back into Low's lake in the ADK's for a week long solo deer hunt out of my canoe (last week of October) Then back home in November to deer hunt my home woods, again solo.
That adds up to about 35 days out there, some of it really out there, so for the initial $165 for the first year and only $99 a year thereafter, I'm going to give my wife and myself piece of mind.