Rescue from woods

[muledeer]

After a long morning hike I got back to camp. Had a bite to eat and one of my buddies decided to take his quad down the road and scout some other areas. It was hot so we decided to get serious about hunting later in the afternoon. My other buddy offered to let me use his quad. I've only ridden a quad once. He told me to go slow and I would be fine. I took my rifle and followed the other quad. I came to the worst part of the road (drop off down to a creek) and hit the throttle too much and went off a steep slope. Hit a choke cherry brush and that stopped me. Actually saved my life. My left foot was stuck under a branch and rotated about 120 degrees inboard. I had to turn my foot straight to get out. I will never ride a quad again!!!
I've never had an accident hiking but this made me think about hunting alone. I'm 63 and in good health and work out at Gold's Gym four days a week. That doesn't mean much when you break a bone!! Bottom line Skeeter, especially in your situation, you should consider hunting with someone, at least invest in a locator like Skinny suggested.
muledeer

[buckhunter]

Hey MD,

Took my son in law about 3 cranks to get my snow blower going again. All set for the next blizzard. Us old Xarts need to be careful.

[skeeter@ccia.com]

http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=103 Hers is something called SPOT. Cost $100 a year basic service I see but would be nice...We are tracking a friend of the wife right now while they hike in Colorado someplace. Very interesting.

[Skinny Shooter]

Skeeter, just found an App that I'm going to try out on the iPhone.
http://www.garafa.com/GPSKit/Home.html
That App has a real-time GPS tracking feature called "Squawk".
Squawk used to be called "Radar" but the website hasn't been updated yet.
Here is a youtube Vid of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsGL8HVo-pM

That will enable my wife to know my location if something would ever go wrong and don't return at a pre-arranged time.