| Get a satellite phone (Globalstar). They are right now "between good satellites, but over any 24 hour period I can always get connected. They have reduced their monthly fee to compensate and there is no longer a per minute charge. I've subscribed for 12 years and considering we camp where no one has gone B4 I wouldn't leave home without one. If you are really gopinmg to boondock $get the Sat TV, do yourself - & your family a favor - get a SAT PHONE! Consider the cost as just something you must do and then don’t worry about it. I've seen our phone save three lives in ten years - not ours but others we ran across. That is no kidding!!! Another story for another day.
Bears & guns - forget the guns, carry bear pepper spray! I've boondock and horse camped in Yellowstone country for 25 years. Just don't leave anything outside that they can eat or smell. If you use common sense you are much safer in bear country than in any Walmart Parking lot! I couldn’t sleep in one of them darn places. Bears don’t want any more to do with you than you with them. Just in the last 3 weeks we’ve had three bears one cougar and three w9olves within 200 yards of our house. If there is no food or anything that smells like food they just move on! I don’t worry about them – but I am always aware, prepared and keep a clean camp!
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