I think you missed the point of the artcile. It plainly exemplifies someone that couldn't have made it home without the beacon. Noone abused the priviladge. And now people in the lower 48 can have such a useful tool as well.<br><br>Let's say it;s someones wife out to get food and gets stuck in a hellstorm, what then? Should she rough it ;ike all your friends that go backpacking when it's 35 below in AK? Not everyone's as though as you.<br><br>"Or am I just being a curmudgeon, as usual? }-; " Yup