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1. Baffling, but let me make one suggestion that might help future hikers.

Fri Jul 8, 2022, 09:23 AM

Jul 2022

Cellphone coverage is nonexistent to useless in many parts of the county.

I am on a ridge, and I have clear view to giant microwave towers (apparently not cellphone antennas) to the east and west. I have photos of them. And one bar on the cell phone. A usable cell signal could have saved the lives of the family that died on that trail.

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/family-died-in-california-mountains-made-desperate-plea/103-3f8f18be-a443-4bca-842b-2e3f8e7209d7

But profits count more than lives.

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Hikers are all too often seriously ignorant, and have made no attempt PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2022 #2