alarm clock input needed

I use my Olympus digital camera. Casio alarms are not loud enough for me. The camera turns the display on when it goes off as well. Loud!

google "screaming meanie alarm" they are small and really really loud. a few models to choose from.

I use the sun, but I realize that might not work for most people. I can't sleep with it bright out so I generally get up around 7 on the trail.

If you wear a watch, buy an el cheapo digital watch with alarm. Or if you carry a phone with an alarm, use that.

I bought a cheap timex digital watch on the way to a trailhead several years ago when I forgot my bomber diver's watch. It was the lightest one I could find, an indiglo triathlon model. It may be a woman's model, as it's black and lavendar. But, it does have an alarm clock feature. I guess I could also use the lap timer feature to see how much time I spend hiking my favorite trail loop. :D

Frankly, it's much more comfortable than the old dive watch, and the light-up dial makes it real easy to check the time without resorting to my headlamp if I wake up in the middle of the night.

My bladder does a wonderful job of getting me up at the crack of dawn, sometimes earlier. Then I have the option of getting on with my day or crawling back in the sack and waiting for the sun, depending on my whim.

Poor Tom… a persistent alarm clock that can't be turned off.

"Poor Tom… a persistent alarm clock that can't be turned off."

It's an old man's approach to going UL. Turn adversity into an opportunity to shave grams. How much did you say a Timex weighs now….?

And how much does that prostate weigh, Tom? You're not a real man unless you shave ounces by getting a TURP…

"And how much does that prostate weigh, Tom?"

My Doc told me after my exam last year that it was an exquisite UL timepiece in fine working order for one so advanced in years. Perhaps not coincidentally, I didn't wear a watch until I was in my late 20's and got my first "real" job. I soon found out that corporate America works on a slightly more precise time scale than even my finely tuned prostatic chronometer could guarantee and reluctantly acquired a much heavier mechanical substitute. As for getting a TURP(Trans Urethral Resection??), my wife just told me she isn't finished with me quite yet, and that the only TURPitude she sees in my future is of the moral variety that I'll be charged with should she catch me in a dalliance. ;}

^ Great post!

Well, here in the Canadian North West, the sun rises at 1005 this week, so we rely on beeping digital watches. A tiny Ladies model, cut the straps off, attach a nylon line and a badge-clip, clip the watch inside your balaclava behind your neck where it is close to your head when the alarm goes off and the batteries won't freeze….you did ask!

I haven't been able to hear digital watch beeping for years, due to the fact that they're not loud enough to be heard over my tinitus. The alarm on my Pentax Optio works very well.

I have partial higher frequency hearing loss and researched to death for an ultralight 1 oz or less alarm clock and found it and have used it on the JMT 2 years straight now:

http://www.invisibleclock.com/

Uses 1 AAA battery.

Put it in vibrating mode with loud/strong vibrations and put it inside your tin or titanium cup. It will wake you up so immensely fast, you'll immediately move at full speed to turn it off in the morning. You can set subsequent alarms, say 5" apart, but if you switch it totally off, (for the rest of the day), then no problem with them going off.

This works like a champ and I wouldn't waste my time trying anything else.