Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Note : Pi 2 Zero W Now RIP-OFF Price on Amazon Date: 7 Aug 2026 19:24:47 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <114v5c9$2spu9$10@dont-email.me> <6a73c056@news.ausics.net> <1151ska$3p218$12@dont-email.me> <6a750d4e@news.ausics.net> <1154e02$j5m2$5@dont-email.me> <48fhkmxobt.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net LNMqNxs7DUXceBeZ+xAh6QveyW4TP3MMbi3fmNy7O/aHZv9ZAs Cancel-Lock: sha1:yNS7ZXoOPKwQb6rKyuAYDEfopRk= sha256:gBNbsVp3F2gp8t2+vxxda4CiVUwAtejKrSiLdiiN5wg= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:89707 On 7 Aug 2026 17:13:24 GMT, Robert Riches wrote: > After determining that he had not punctured a lung or another > organ, > David's friends Brad and Jess helped him get down Granite Peak and > they called search and rescue on their sat phone. Good idea. > Is helicopter rescue "free" in countries with socialized medicine? When I lived in New Hampshire you could register if you were hiking in the back country. iirc there was a $5 or $10 fee, but it was strictly voluntary. The understanding was if you chose not to register and had a problem you should call someone who cared. I knew a guy who was on a S&R team. He had done Granite twice, once with a rope and once without. He said he'd never do it without a rope again. It's the highest peak in MT at 12,807' and definitely out of my league. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Peak_(Montana) I'm going to assume David and his friends weren't amateurs.