 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi everybody, I sympathise with the thoughts, there’s nothing worse than losing a child, I know I’ve been there. As for keeping an eye on them well easier said than done particularly if there’s more than one and they go places where any normal person won’t.
However on the subject of spy type trackers there a few about but in my experience they are not as good as they would have you believe and the data cost when roaming are not cheap. A cheap solution however is to use something that a 9 year old would already have. A smart phone, give him a call, there aren’t many resorts where mobile phones don’t work. If you need to keep track of your buddy remotely then take a look at Google Latitude, it’s a utility in Google Maps and it allows you to see where all logged in users are not just the two skiers, and it’s free but does use a data connection.
If you need data abroad then get a spare phone and a PAYG sim in the country where you going.
John Bird
www.gtrek.co.uk
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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in my skiing group there are usually 6 adults and two children (mine). We ski in a loose line with an adult at the front, another bringing up the rear with everyone else in the middle. The boys know to keep a known person in sight and - if all else fails and they lose sight - to ski to a pre-determined piste marker. I also make a laminated card for each if the boys to keep in their inside pockets detailing their name, DOB, address in resort, EHIC number and a variety of mobile numbers for responsible adults in the group as well as some UK numbers of relatives etc. Thankfully we haven't had to use any of this yet, and reading the above, hope we never do, but things happen
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Great thread. I have now booked my vasectomy...
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I'm just thinking back to all those skiing holidays as a child where myself, my sister or our friends of a similar age on family skiing holidays got lost and needed microwave transmitters and radar to let folks know where we were.... oh... we didn't. We did what we were told and stuck to the runs we said we were going to be on. Discipline is far more effective than technology. Trackers just deal with the symptoms, not the cause.
now where did I put that asbestos hoodie?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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feef, I completely agree with you....... but (dons devils advocate asbestos cloak) one shouldn't ignore the fact that accidents or mistakes do sometimes happen and having a solution to the problem is not a bad back up plan. Cue insurance, avi shovel, transc, helmet (oh no I've only gone and mentioned a helmet again) discussion.
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| feef, I completely agree with you....... but (dons devils advocate asbestos cloak) one shouldn't ignore the fact that accidents or mistakes do sometimes happen and having a solution to the problem is not a bad back up plan. Cue insurance, avi shovel, transc, helmet (oh no I've only gone and mentioned a helmet again) discussion. |
I quite agree, but those things are useful anywhere... the important thing was that we were skiing where we said we were going to be, or we were told to be. Had anything happened, then it would have been easier to at least start looking within a defined area.
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