I did a week at my somewhat remote central Ontario deer camp with famly and lifelong friends, always the best of times!

Cell service has recently been available at our camp and it is with mixed feelings that we use it. It now means that work can find us when we are on vacation, but it does help with family contact and in case there was ever an emergency.

With cell service came text messaging and the younger members of our camp are addicted to it. After a heated discussion we had to make the camp rule that texting was only to be done in the camp, in the private bunk room. The common living room/kitchen area was reserved for social camp interaction. That solved the problem.

Voice contact does not work in the hunting area but text does, so we communicated between hunters in the field using it. I also checked in with my teenaged kids daily during the slow times on the stand.

As always our hunt was a big success (it really does not matter to us anymore how full the game pole is).

Mike