I'd like to turn this into a poll.

How many of you pack along a SPOT Messenger?
http://www.findmespot.com/en/

Articles like this one make me annoyed:
Doc: Woman stranded for weeks was close to dying
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42953750/ns/us_news-life/

Had they carried a SPOT along, it would've been a non-event. (Well, maybe another write up for SPOT's news letters)

I have a few brackets... one in the Commander, up by the sunroof. One on my bike, another on my Porta-Bote. (I don't need one on the big boat, I have VHF marine etc.) If I leave the Jeep/bike/boat and head out walking, the SPOT is clipped to the day pack or my belt.

There's no excuse to not have one, as it's cheap insurance. The device is about $180 depending... sometimes you can get a better price online. The service is about $120 a year, and that's if you add their insurance policy that covers rescues up to $100,000. One chopper flight out, and that's worth more than its weight in platinum.

All you have to do is see the sky to get help. And, if you update often or subscribe to the ''breadcrumb trail'' mode which automatically updates every 5 minutes, you can still come out ahead even if you end up like the dude in the new movie ''127 hours.'' The SPOT may not work from a deep slot canyon, but the update trail would end at the entrance of the canyon, so when he didn't show up for work on Monday, a fast review of the positions would've pointed out very close to where he was.