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Well, if Les Stroud endorses it then it must be a good product. I just don't know about the $99.00 yearly fee.
Yea I don't know 8.25 a month seem worth my life verses becoming bear bait. with all of the vast wilderness here and the amount of times I'm alone in the woods, if nothing else its a piece of mind for my wife and kids . I float river's alot, seems like good insurance.
$8.25? Wow...you are high maintenance. I would have to give up bubblegum for a week out of the month for that.