Agreed! That said, I live rural and am a hop from primitive back country; have years of backpacking under my skirt. <lol> Decades ago, long before tech, I mastered a compass and topographic map -- and what you need with you when leaving for heaven-in-the-woods. I've never been lost. That's a skill, imho, that anyone going into back country needs to have. As I write this, I am remembering a friend who went solo elk hunting south of me, which a new emergency system. Around his evening fire, he leaned back on his pack, set it off, and the next thing he knew, he had helicopters hovering above, EMT-types hiking into his primitive site, and one very mad wife, who had raced out of her job to find him.

Scared all the elk away...

Recently, the strangest thing that happened to me was having a signal on a total wi-fi phone in a remote area while friend's verizon phone plan had no signal. This was an area where there were no houses ...just miles of land.