Thread: First Solo Hunt Coming Up

Put your phone on Airplane Mode when you are not using it. If you leave comms switched on it will spend the whole time hunting for signal and anyone who has used a smart phone in poor signal areas knows, you can sit and watch the battery percentage drop incredibly fast. Mine will still be in the 80%s at the end of the day but if it is not in Airplane Mode it will go flat by mid afternoon. The area you are talking about in the Kaimais has very patchy signal and is a phone battery killer.

Next up you absolutely must take a PLB. Is irresponsible not to. People are pulled out of the Kaimais in trouble every year, there was one just recently.

I knocked myself unconscious in the Kaimais by slipping and falling and head-butting a tree root. I was lucky because I had a mate with me. If you break a leg in there or anything else that immobilises you while you are off the tracks, you are going to find out the hard way that being found is an extremely difficult task for the emergency folk.