Where do you put your phone when hacking?

Coat pocket in winter.

I specifically buy leggings/riding tights with ample pockets for summer riding.
 
Pocket of my hi vis, whatever hi vis I'm wearing.

Once I tucked it down the front of my BP, sideways, when I'd bu88ered the zip on a hi vis lw gilet on arrival at a fun ride..
Amazingly it stayed put, despite some high jinks and plenty of xc jumped in the route!
 
Either in my breeches if they have a thigh pocket or in a 'runners bumbag', they're very small and basically fit only my phone and a few extra strong mints for the pony
 
Gilet or coat pocket or bum bag. Please don’t put in your bra…I did for years and had breast cancer scare at that site, I’ve got titanium marker there now after suction biopsy to remove odd looking tissue cells.
 
Coat pocket or breeches pocket in winter. Life venture zip up purse belt in summer - Just the cotton one now called a waist wallet. I hack alone and always take my phone.
 
In my hand bag hidden at the yard! I never ride alone though and the others all have phones.
On fun rides I ride alone. I wear a bum bag with phone inside. However as I ride wearing distance glasses and need reading glasses to see anything on my phone I'm not sure what good it would do. I would always need someone else to make any calls.
Sorry OP I realise you wanted serious suggestions but couldn't resist.
 
Can't imagine hacking without my phone. OR a hat!!! 🧐

I generally have riding tights with a big pocket. PE also do more traditional breeches type with the thigh pockets. Hacking, I usually have a high viz with pockets. At a push, I have shoved one down my waistband.

On horseback safari, I had my phone on a lanyard. It was fab when semi fake charged by an elephant and the horse wanted to exit, so I had to drop it to contain the horse.

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poiuytrewq said:
What would happen if you fell off or had an accident? I feel really bare without my phone somewhere!
Generally riding tights with a thigh pocket or if its not really warm I have a goof high viz gilet with zipped pockets
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When I have fallen off, I've held on to the reins and got back on. When horse cut himself on a stone, I walked him home and called the vet. When I got off, horse spooked and ran off, I caught up with her and got back on again. In none of those situations, would having a phone have helped. I can't honestly think of a single occasion when having a phone would have helped. Things happen very quickly with horses and you have to act quickly on your own. Obviously, if we were jumping things and galloping over unknown ground, it would be different but we're quite cautious. Also, up until recently, we haven't had much signal round us so not sure the phone would have worked. We have a new mast so signal is better now though. I also like the fact that no one can get hold of me while I'm out riding. It's me time and I have a welcome break from communications. I always tell husband which route I'm going on and he would (probably!) notice if I didn't come back.

I like the idea of an apple watch though. I'll look into that as a birthday present, though expect too expensive.
 
In my leggings pocket, waistband, coat pocket or hi vis pocket. I've always had my phone on me when I've fallen off and not broken it yet 😂
 
Marigold4 said:
When I have fallen off, I've held on to the reins and got back on. When horse cut himself on a stone, I walked him home and called the vet. When I got off, horse spooked and ran off, I caught up with her and got back on again. In none of those situations, would having a phone have helped. I can't honestly think of a single occasion when having a phone would have helped. Things happen very quickly with horses and you have to act quickly on your own. Obviously, if we were jumping things and galloping over unknown ground, it would be different but we're quite cautious. Also, up until recently, we haven't had much signal round us so not sure the phone would have worked. We have a new mast so signal is better now though. I also like the fact that no one can get hold of me while I'm out riding. It's me time and I have a welcome break from communications. I always tell husband which route I'm going on and he would (probably!) notice if I didn't come back.

I like the idea of an apple watch though. I'll look into that as a birthday present, though expect too expensive.
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I fell off and snapped my lower leg and ankle (my lower leg was not facing the way it should have been…) and my horse galloped off. I was on my own in a field on a cold November morning. I couldn’t have walked anywhere because my foot was no longer internally attached to my leg. I could feel the shattered bones crunching around with every movement.
A phone will call the emergency services without signal.
If I hadn’t rang for an ambulance and got seen to when I did, I’d have lost my foot. I very nearly lost it anyway due to how long it was without a pulse.

Please, please always take a phone out with you. You never think it will happen to you.. until it does.
 
Marigold4 said:
When I have fallen off, I've held on to the reins and got back on. When horse cut himself on a stone, I walked him home and called the vet. When I got off, horse spooked and ran off, I caught up with her and got back on again. In none of those situations, would having a phone have helped. I can't honestly think of a single occasion when having a phone would have helped. Things happen very quickly with horses and you have to act quickly on your own. Obviously, if we were jumping things and galloping over unknown ground, it would be different but we're quite cautious. Also, up until recently, we haven't had much signal round us so not sure the phone would have worked. We have a new mast so signal is better now though. I also like the fact that no one can get hold of me while I'm out riding. It's me time and I have a welcome break from communications. I always tell husband which route I'm going on and he would (probably!) notice if I didn't come back.

I like the idea of an apple watch though. I'll look into that as a birthday present, though expect too expensive.
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I think in 45 years of riding I've only fallen off about 5 times out hacking and I've always managed to remount or walk my horse home, except for the one time I was thrown into a tree and was so broken I couldn't! My phone survived the body slam and as well as alerting the emergency services to my fall I was able to direct the ambulance crews...there were 3 ambulances and a rapid responder and this was pre What 3 Words...through the woods to the exact tree I was laying at the base of.

Now if hacking I carry it in my thigh pocket, a zipped pocket in my hi viz or in a thigh bag and if schooling it's in my thigh pocket or down my boot. I also have a couple of emergency contacts who can track my hack and are alerted if I'm stationary for too long.

Just to add that I have also hacked with someone who unexpectedly fell off whilst we were cantering in a straight line and it turned out she had a stroke and things would have been a lot worse for her if we had to try and get her back to the yard before calling for help.
 
The Army will not let anyone ride with phone in thigh pocket - it can be the reason you break the thigh bone when you fall - it happened
 
Abacus said:
To save me doing a third edit, here I am again... Chat GPT tells me this, and it is probably something that we should all do if we hack alone (or even in company).

To register for emergency SMS, text "register" to 999. After sending the text, you'll receive a reply with instructions, including a confirmation to complete the registration. Following the instructions, typically replying with "yes", will register your phone. You will then receive a confirmation message indicating your registration is complete.

Here's a more detailed breakdown:
  1. 1. Send "register" to 999:
    Open a new text message and type "register" without anything else, then send it to the emergency number 999.

  2. 2. Read the reply:
    The emergency services will reply with a message outlining the registration process and what you need to do.

    • 3. Confirm registration:
      Reply to the message with "yes" or follow the specific instructions provided in the reply message.
    • 4. Receive confirmation:
      You will receive a final message confirming your registration or indicating if there was an issue.
    • 5. Test your registration:
      To verify your registration, you can send "register" to 999 again. A reply confirming "already registered" indicates successful registration, according to the GAGB.
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ChatGPT is not a search engine and gives incorrect information roughly half the time. Please, don't rely on it.
 
I’m quite OCD about making sure I have my phone with charge since I had to call an ambulance when my friend fell off and was unconscious. Her phone wasn’t damaged and she could have used it had she been conscious! Also upped my body protector fame since that day! In my jodhpurs pocket or hi viz has pockets too.
 
tda said:
In my coat pocket of course! Where do you all live going out without a coat or waistcoat on 🤣
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I did once lose my phone, hacking before work. Fortunately I could easily retrace the short route and, by ringing it from another phone, find it fairly quickly. That taught me to put my phone in a zipped pocket.
 
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Cloball said:
I do remember when I was a teen trying to jam my phone into my breeches pocket back when they were quite small. It still fell out often and I had to go back for it.
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When they went through a phase of making phones tiny I remember having one that fit in that tiny pocket on old jods. 😂
 
I always carry my phone, not only so I can contact someone in an emergency but also because I use Equilab and like to be able to look at trends in my riding. So far in 18 yrs of horse ownership I haven't fallen off hacking but I'm not daft enough to think that this is a guarantee that it will never happen. So I usually carry it in a zipped pocket of my hi viz, or in a bum bag, my thigh pocket on my riding tights, or failing all that stuffed down my boot or half chaps.
 
I have a bum bag which contains, phone, folding hoof pick, horse treats. and a length of bail band also a little plastic heart from a friend that says sending hugs. All of which I have needed as a solo hacker at some point in time. The said leather bag is feeling its age a bit like me but it is part of my tack as I get ready. Good idea to put your contact details in there as well Oh and a couple of Murry mints for me.
 
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Pippity said:
ChatGPT is not a search engine and gives incorrect information roughly half the time. Please, don't rely on it.
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I work in AI. It is absolutely a search engine, which consolidates information from websites rather than just pointing you to relevant websites. But of course you should always check information from ChatGPT, which is why I then registered for 999 SMS - it works exactly as stated. And you should reference your source, as I did.

Incidentally, you didn’t reference the source for ‘half of the time’. The accuracy of the answers depends on the quality of the prompt and of the available reference material. It works much better than this if you ask it the right question.
 
In the pocket of my coat or hi vis jacket. Like keys, it needs to come with me. For one thing, when being adventurous I need the OS maps app!

If your phone is really large you could always get a pay as you go chip and a £20 ‘dumb phone’.
 
I pop mine in a pocket- coat in the winter, breeches pocket or the waistband of my breeches in the summer (depending on size of pocket and phone!).
I've had to call for help after falling off on the road, so that someone could get out onto the road to try and stop the pony, who was heading home at speed!
 
Pippity said:
ChatGPT is not a search engine and gives incorrect information roughly half the time. Please, don't rely on it.
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So in the interests of relevance to this thread, is the information that was posted from ChatGPT incorrect?
 
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