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The Importance of Cell Phones on the Trail
"I feel lucky, honestly, that I hike the trail in that era and that era when we could still be alone," she says. "When I first heard of it, it just seemed like such a bad idea ... It seemed like nobody would agree to do that." She recalls one hiker who had an early cell phone on the trail; he didn't take it with him.