We all split the melon a little differently. I carry a PLB, and give to SAR every year, hoping to keep my kharma away from my dharma. I'm alive, but so is Jeff, so what's the difference. We all recognize the need to ride a Harley, on the open road with the wind rushing though our hair, and resist a bit the laws that put a helmet on our heads in some states, but they don't call them donor cycles for nothin, you luck can run out from a rock on a curve. Old, bold and alive - pick two. You takes your chances and live with your mistakes I say. I dress in bright colors, the easier for SAR to spot my corpse. But if I had my druthers I'd rather be signalling distress with my PLB than lying and dying at the bottom of a ravine. That's my chance to take. I like being out on a hike alone, but I love my wife and my family.