You fish alone?

[Goose]

Does anyone know the story of Aron Ralston the outdoor adventurer? A while back I seen him the Letterman show telling his story. If your not familiar with it, in short, it goes something like this.

He's hiking alone in the canyons. While climbing, a loose boulder rolls and pins his wrist to the canyon wall. He has 22 ozs of water left and holds out for a while but after a long ordeal he ends up amputating his arm in order to save his life. He has a camera and small video camera. Its a good book with pictures too.

In the book, almost an hour into realizing he's in deep chit, he states... "I violated the prime directive travel in failing to leave a detailed trip plan with a responsible person."

I do a lot of fishing and hunting alone and never tell anyone my where abouts. I find it to be a pain in the @$$ to draw a map or write directions as to where I'm going. Sometimes I'll bring the cell phone but not always. There are fishy places with no reception. Its not the outback but we still need to realize the dangers and use extra cation.