By Lance Benzel
Suck on the summit without a signal?
Stay calm and reach for the breath mints – at least that’s the unlikely advice that Frank and Lynn Skinner might offer.
The husband and wife from Colorado Springs spend weekends hunting for radio signals on summits across the Pikes Peak region.
They manage to snag them by means of a gizmo that would make MacGyver envious: a tiny radio tucked in an Altoids tin and powered by a 9-volt battery and a 35-foot wire that’s either tossed into the trees or held aloft by a fishing pole.
“It looks pretty funny when you’re on a summit with a fishing pole, but it works,” said Frank Skinner, who recently deployed one of his makeshift radios on the summit of Mt. Rosa, where he and his wife hunkered down against the wind in search of signs of life somewhere, anywhere.
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