Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
Considering what? I was actually trying to be humorously sarcastic in the face of all the fatalism about 'bodies'. Your wives are not equipped to bring your bodies out of backcountry even if they could locate them with one of those thingamabobs. Trained search and rescue people would have that assignment covered and usually they find people alive or dead within 24 hours, locators not usually present on their bodies.
Edited to add that chances are better than even that my wife would be with me if I was biking or hiking somewhere and if she couldn't be. Someone would be. I've never been told specifically but it just doesn't seem the best of practices to go deep into no cell reception territory all alone.
People go alone all the time, with no issues and it doesn't take much exploring to be in a no cell area. I'm one of them and I realized the risk and got an InReach to help minimize that risk. The InReach sends GPS coordinates and I believe a link to a map of the device location when it sends a text, thus the person getting the Help Me message can readily give this information to the rescue folks. Were you really thinking that if I send a Send Help message to my wife when I'm in the middle of nowhere in the Adirondacks, that my wife will drive 350 miles and come looking for me ?. No,. she's calling the NY State Police.