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Somewhat of the same situation exists for the mosquito borne disease West Nile Virus. Several years ago a coworker spent weeks on life support in an ICU recovering from WNV that was finally definitively diagnosed via serological testing. He still routinely encounters adamant disbelief from...

My grandfather had big cardboard bins full of bamboo flyrods, and as a teenager (more than 60 years ago) I fished quite a few of them because I couldn't afford exotic fiberglass. Once I'd acquired fiberglass (and later graphite) flyrods I had no desire to fish bamboo...didn't like the feel, or...

4th Earl of Asquith, fishing his beloved Shimano Asquith.

Good point! No handheld device can provide the kind of wide-ranging detailed info found on a good topo map.

I refuse to own a flyrod with a name that makes me sound like I've got a lisp.

I tend to leave my Garmin Inreach Explorer on the entire time I'm in the sticks because in an emergency I wouldn't want to waste time waiting for it to 'boot up' after turning on (though it's pretty fast), and especially when I'm afoot because I use its mapping and GPS waypoint functions. Even...

With an unpaired mini (I only have the full screen version) it would be difficult for updates and communication...but with the large full screen Inreach units you just use the on-board keypad and don't need to 'pair-up' with a smartphone. I also have preset messages.

I use the same rationale to justify my other purchasing dumfukery as well! 😄

Hell...I think anybody who would pay $1k for a Sage is a dumfuk...this is a whole 'nuther level of dumfukery.

I've tended to use my Inreach devices (none were the mini units) unpaired with my smartphone....uses more battery for both if paired and really wanted to learn to effectively use all of my Inreach devices' features. I don't send out or receive frequent or complex text messages...and during my...

The outfit that purchased Firehole finally decided to simply liquidate the remaining product; that's what's showing up now at various vendors. Sort of a 'Fire' sale. 😮‍💨

Well over a year ago I heard from a local shop that they were going to stop carrying Firehole because of its inability to reliably provide its very high quality product. They were liquidating their stock of Firehole hooks at a deep discount. Having already amassed a large quantity over the...

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I dunno...I've never had problems learning how to use the features I want to use on any of my Garmin electronic gear. Just watch a few youtube demos...and ignore the stuff that's personally useless.

I've used the Garmin Inreach devices for many years. Always works. Never had to use the SOS feature, but the texting capability allows me to let my wife know I'm changing destinations and/or departure times while I'm out in the boonies. My current unit also has full GPS North America maps...

I vow to not make any New Year resolutions. Still working on many decades of Old Year resolutions. 😁

It's a geriatric club yer joinin' whether ya like it or not!

And don't get me started on osteopenia! 😁

Gotta be an improvement....after being owned by three successive VC entities intent on extracting whatever value Hobie retained it was looking like a death spiral....