I admit that due to the fact that most of my life, I communicated with non-english speaking people, or folks who had minimal familiarity with the language.... I learned to love brevity.
Can I state some points of position as painfully extracted from the discourse?
1. SPOT, Sat Phones, Cell phones are the common mode of backcountry 911, currently.
2. SPOT has a cancel mode, the other two devices are subject to signal availability for cancellation.
3. A perceived view is that "Cancellation" of 911 via SPOT is enough to consider the case closed on the emergency call out.
4. Sat phone & cell would require a form of secondary communication if no signal was attained.
QUERIES ARRISING FROM ABOVE PREMISE
1. IS a cancellation of 911 via SPOT enough effort to carry one without further effort to contact SAR?
2. IS contact with an outgoing group of hikers enough effort to consider case closed?
3. IN ALL CASES is direct contact a mandate, or at the very least an expected courtesy?
4. MUST direct contact be made immediatedly as numero uno priority once the emergency has passed, or is "as soon as possible/convenient" (after cancelling via "button" or word of mouth) when you hit the end of the JMT? (and the emergency was in Happy Isles)
