Talked my wife, who has resisted getting her own ham license for years (in spite of being a solo backcountry hiker) into trying a practice test for the Technician license. She beat 50%, which is double what a random distribution of answers would be. She needed 8 more correct answers to pass. This is someone who has refused to study or even look at the material.
I'll keep up the fight, but EVERYONE who ventures further than their own neighborhood should get a license and carry a cheap radio.
@W6KME one of my initial inspirations for getting a license was because I like to hike in areas without cell phone reception. I took a HT on a few hikes but never heard a thing other than a repeater beacon.
If you want to be safe in the backcountry a Garmin InReach would be much better than a ham radio.
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