Originally Posted By: hikermor
Color me skeptical...i don't go into the wild to transmit my position back home at ten minute intervals and i want relief from checking my email, etc.

But it is a really useful item in an emergency...
You don't need to use those features if you don't want to. You can turn the thing off and stash it in your pack. Only when and if you get into trouble then turn it on.

The advantage over a PLB is that besides transmitting an SOS with your GPS location, one can communicated details of ones predicament to rescue teams. The disadvantage over a PLB is that InReach requires paying a monthly subscription fee.
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