Personal safety

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AIBU to ask for your suggestions. If you’re wre to spend a lot of time outdoors alone often in remote places, what would you take to protect yourself? Alarm perhaps? A spray, if it’s legal?

I wouldn't have thought you were particularly unsafe in a remote place? (I'm assuming somewhere rural) and if it was remote presumably an alarm wouldn't help? I would bring my phone and nothing else.

I think it's unlikely to get attacked somewhere really remote, OP, if that's what you're worried about? An alarm wouldn't be very helpful in that situation, either. But a mobile phone for sure - and letting someone know where you'll be at what time is a good idea too, if you're off hiking.

Is this for work, living somewhere, exercise?

What are you worried might happen? What is the evidence that the things you’re worried about may happen?

Who would hear the alarm?

I'd just keep a mobile on me, in case of accident. I walk the dog in my own, and it wouldn't occur to me to take anything.

A big dog.

How remote is remote?

Upgrade to strava beacon? Sends a message to chosen contacts of your location every so many minutes. Tell people where you are going and roughly what time you will be back with a rough idea of stops along the way?

By and large I think I'd feel a lot safer somewhere remote than somewhere urban.

If you have an iPhone you can press the power button quickly 5 times, it sets of an alarm and automatically calls 999 as well as texting your location to everyone in your favourites list.

In terms of self defense I think you can get sprays that are legal in the UK (if you are here) but apparently they’re not that effective. A travel sized hairspray would probably do.

Define remote.

I have had jobs working on my own for hours in the woods. Last night I went for a run in countryside at dusk (rewarded with barn owl company!!).

I sometimes put on my best resting bitch face & promise self to kick shit out of anyone who goes for me.