Hi Sam - I'm sure that you have all your venture-into-wilderness proceedure and gear finely honed since you posted this originally!  However, if you haven't come across the SPOT satellite personal messager devices, you should consider them.  I think I was one of the first to get one in the Bow Valley back in 2007, but since then they have been in the newspaper a number of times, having successfully called out the troops (province or federal) when accidents have happened.  They now have a handy button to call a towtruck, and have always had a button to get h