[Philmont] Coverage on the Tooth, Baldy, Phillips, etc..

I got a call from my son last Wednesday from Mt Phillips. I am pretty
sure that he had a better signal there than I had here at work in Wichita,
Kansas. He called us the night before they hit the trail using one of his
crew-mates phones because he couldn't get a signal on his phone (Verizon.)
I also know that some of the other scouts in his crew called their parents
earlier in the trek from the B-24 crash site on Trail Peak.

Cheers!
Bill

On 8/17/07, emaes@provide.net <emaes@provide.net> wrote:
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>
> OK, I know it's backpacking and we're supposed to be
> roughing it, back to nature, etc...
>
> But curiosity leads me to ask how was cell phone coverage
> at Philmont and specifically, out in the back country? How
> about when on any of the mountains (Tooth, Baldy, Phillips,
> etc..)?
>
> When I was there in 2002, cell coverage on the Tooth was
> spotty/marginal. We had an adult in our crew whose mother
> wasn't doing so well, so he took his cell phone to try to
> keep in contact with the home-front at least once day. If I
> recall, he was only able to get connectivity when we were
> on the higher locations.
>
> YIS - Eric
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Received on Fri Aug 17 10:56:17 2007