Thread: Garmin InReach Mini vs Spot Gen 4

Just to add, I've had to use the SOS function on a spot device before and it worked perfectly, it was one of the older ones with preset messages so had no idea if it had worked at the time but within half an hour of setting it off there was a chopper above our location, due to the terrain and weather he couldn't land or even stay hovering in one spot but they put the searchlight on us and then managed to drop off a paramedic and a SAR member further up the ridge who came down and stayed with us untill we could be taken out. My wife had fallen down a bank into a river as we followed a track along the creek bank and she got hit in the thigh by a rock that came tumbling down the hill from above us somewhere on the way back to the car park from a weekend hunt and all the while it had been pissing down rain so we were racing the clock to get to the last river crossing before the river had raised too much. I had screamed at her to dump her pack as she couldn't stand up and I managed to grab hold of her just after she had done so. Her pack had all our clothes and tent etc as mine was full of meat. So we were soaked wet, it was freezing cold and raining and we were trapped between two rising rivers with no dry clothes or shelter, things went to shit pretty quickly that day so I'm glad the spot device worked.
I've also used my new device to have a full person to person txt conversation and explained to my staff how to fix a problem they had with an effluent pump on the farm whilst I was away in the hills so the communication thing is definately handy along with just letting significant other you are settled in for the night at the end of each day etc. Weather reports are also a great function.