Re: EPIRB INFO
Whth2owm@aol.com
Fri, 1 Aug 1997 21:23:39 -0400 (EDT)
Dear Bob Hiltner:
While your question of legality of EPIRBS in the Canyon is a good one, I
hesitate to remind you that those things we usually float down the Canyon in
are decidedly boats. My personal experience is that we did use one (Or,
rather, the commercial trip we lent ours to did.) and we did not hear one
word about it being an illegal activity. I am sure that if that was the
case, we would have been so informed. But if the question is still in your
mind, I think that a call to the rangers at Lee's Ferry would answer it.
I can't imagine a saftey device such as an EPIRB would be sited as illegal
when it saves lives. I would also like to add that I am against cell phones
in the Grand, and I agree that it should remain as pristine wilderness as
possible. Having spent 7 years sailing on the oceon, I embrace the
philosophy of self-sufficiancy and minimal camping (existance) I think it
makes us all stronger and better people to do without the frills and do-dads
of modern life for awhile.
I also watched some of the people in my last Grand group rush to the phones
at Phantom, and they all asked me why I wasn't calling to find out how my
business and home were...... I replied that it didn't matter at that point,
there was NO way I was going to leave untill Pierce Ferry, and any info that
I could have gotten at that point was irrelevent. My mind was on that nasty
little eddy just past Phantom that I invariably get caught in. Let me know
what the rangers say.....
Chris aka Whth2owm
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