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GPS
Initially hiked for years with the combination of a separate GPS and a separate SOS. I wrote a whole piece about that in this report.
Be sure to read all the different days because later in this adventure, on ‘Isle of Mull’ (en route to the top of Ben More), there is a video where I explain how to navigate with a GPS.
When I ran the, wonderful!, Tour Mont Blanc Alpine in 2020, I had 11 days to think how nice it would be if this combined would be available in 1 device.
Probably that need existed more broadly because when I looked at the site when I got home, there was this fantastic device.
For all the options, be sure to check out Garmin’s website via the link below! What a perfect device!!!
Initially hiked for years the combination of a separate GPS and a separate SOS. I wrote a whole piece about that in this report.
Be sure to read all the different days because later in this adventure, on ‘Isle of Mull’ (en route to the top of Ben More), there is a video where I explain how to navigate with a GPS.
When I ran the, wonderful!, Tour Mont Blanc Alpine in 2020, I had 11 days to think how nice it would be if this combined would be available in 1 device.
Probably that need existed more broadly because when I looked at the site when I got home, there was this fantastic device.
For all the options, be sure to check out Garmin’s website via the link below! What a perfect device!!!
I have a subscription to Garmin that allows me to press the SOS button anywhere in the world, after which contact is made with a switchboard that is busy 365/24/7. This one then helps me further with communication via text messages.
From this subscription I can send messages to cell phones myself where my wife Eveline is the only one with whom I have daily contact.
My family can see my location continuously where I intentionally share this only with them.
My phone is off anyway when I’m on an adventure.
To conserve battery power but, more importantly, enjoy being (alone)!
Search plate;
look at the GPS screen above and find where my tent is!
You see a red “pin” on the screen which is where I started this day and where I left my tent.
My position is just not in this picture but is at the very bottom of the screen, right in the middle.
By the way, this day is described in this report / this day on Komoot and was part of this 10th Scottish Adventure which can be found via this link available on Komoot.
Weather forecast can be requested, via satellite so also without telephone connection which is the case 95% of the time.
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