Hey guys, welcome to the Field Crafts Revival Podcast.

I'm your host for this episode.

My name is Kevin Estella.

I am recording from my brand new home office here in Moore County.

As you guys know, the North Carolina office shut down, just giving you guys a heads up.

Even though the physical location is shut down, I still plan on teaching the courses that I'm signed up for right now for Fieldcraft.

So make sure you guys are checking out

W. W. W. W.

Fieldcraft Survival.com forward slash training and you'll see all the

training that we got going on out here. Now as I make my way through this morning and I'm drinking my second cup of coffee and you know planning all my trips for the summer

You know you guys are gonna hear a few things today that I think should drive home the importance of having a plan, having a good emergency plan, and if you guys have been through one of my classes. You know that we talk about the

pace planning principle, primary alternate contingency and emergency, and you

know that I'm a huge fan of the Garmin in reach. Like that's like the do all end all when it comes to electronic signaling in my opinion.

I think anyone that is traveling to the backcountry should have one on them and if you've

been in my class you probably heard me say everyone should have a Fox 40 whistle and maybe that's because I'm like an old school, you know, back in the day lifeguard and I carried a Fox 40 whistle with me everywhere.

You know, you've been in my class, you've probably heard me say you should probably have a signal mirror well there is a new product something that I was like this is awesome and I want to kind of focus on this idea of rescue because as we get into the summer season there are going to be more and more people you're going to hear about on hiking trails that are going to have a mechanical injury, they're going to fall, they're going to break a bone, They're going to have a vehicle get disabled. They need

to signal for help. They're going to get lost, get stranded, whatever I may be. And I'm a firm believer that if you are traveling to the backcountry you should have ways of

getting in touch with people, letting people know,

hey I'm here, come and rescue me, and the gentleman who I've on the podcast today he developed a product which I think is pretty darn remarkable

It's a

Incredible improvement to the V.S. 17 panel. I don't even put those two in the same

category anymore because one is heavy and clunky and has limited capability and it

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