A - Glad he is okay
B - Said in vicinity of Flume, could have been in the nice fir tree filled area high on the Osseo Trail
C - all the companies coverage maps would say they had coverage, (lying would be better than saying in populated NE, the #1 Scenic Fall Drive is full of coverage holes.) (Glad to see I was without coverage in the Minerva area this weekend)
D- with so many places pushing LNT, AMC, ADK, Scouts, Sierra Club.....these yahoos playing mountain men on TV(okay maybe they are mountain men but it's still about ratings, not about being prepared - why aren't there any shows about well equipped well planned trips, because your trip and mine go off without a hitch beyond a blister or using spare cord as a boot lace - that would be boring & you couldn't sell ads for the time. Who'd hire a guide who had major drama on every trip?)
E- Sarcasm note, had he brought a gun, he could have shot the branches off the trees