Garmin 010-01879-00 InReach Mini, Lightweight and Compact Satellite Communicator, Orange

If you need this, it’s worth it’s weight in gold. But for the price it just isn’t worth it for me. I’d rather be stuck in the woods with a broken leg and have coyotes gnaw my leg off before spending that amount of money of something I’ll likely never use. I’ll wait until the iPhone adopts satellite txt in the next few years.

Awesome device.

I havent had to use this in an emergency but its good to know that I have it just in case. I have used the text message feature and that is really nice to keep people updated. The app that is associated with it is really nice as well!

The good: Its small, light, links with your phone for maps and allows texting and freedom plans to pay when you need it.

A friend and I did a recent backpacking trip in a remote part of Alaska. We were never going to be within 100 miles of a road, and our primary recovery by float-plane would be dependent on our proximity to a sizeable lake. We wanted to keep our families informed of our status, we wanted the DarkSky weather reports, we wanted comms with our pilots, and we thought the InReach SOS service was a nice back-up in case things truly got ugly.

The concept is nice but loving in the bay area where clouds are a daily thing it just doesnt work. Messages would be delayed hours if not days.

Item was great as expected!

It does what it is supposed to do.

I am often in the wilderness offloading to far to hike out. This device gives me peace of mind, knowing I can get help if needed. Well worth the money.

Relative to my old Spot Messenger, this is a 5 star device - that Messenger was an awful, unreliable product that Spot will no longer activate. I dropped a star because Garmin could really do just a few things in the software to make it perfect. But heres what is great: