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Playing in the Great Outdoors? Bring This Gold-Standard Emergency Messenger, Now on Sale

Keep yourself safe outdoors (but don’t substitute for common sense and good navigation) with an emergency messenger.

By Matt Jancer | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan

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My friends and family like to tease me that I spend my vacation in (at least in their eyes) very un-relaxing ways. To me, there’s no better way to spend a week than hiking or mountain climbing; the kind where you spend a few days ascending an ice-covered mountain, roped up to your climbing companions as a safety precaution against falling through a snowbridge and into a crevasse (I’ve been in a few).

And then there are the long hikes I take alone, usually into the desert. If I can go a week without seeing more than four people, max, then I’m literally a happy camper. Most of us these days, amateurs and professional guides alike, carry an emergency beacon that lets you contact search and rescue in case the whole endeavor goes pear-shaped. And almost every emergency beacon I’ve carried or seen in somebody’s clutches in the great outdoors has been a Garmin inReach of one kind or........

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