I'll be leaving from Carlsbad, hopefully 3-ish Friday, doing 78E/15N/79N/10E/62N/247NE.
I'll try to remember to put on my antenna & turn my CB on. If so, I'll leave it on Ch 14, unless that's got one of those "400lb 55yo I still live with my mom in the boonies" asshats blabbing away on it with the booster. If so, I'll bop down to Ch. 4. If that's screwed up too, I'd go for Ch 24. Keep it in the "4's".
Cell phone's spotty out there, but better than it used to be. I'm on Verizon, and get signal probably 75+% of the time on the lakebed. Mine is a dumbphone, so I have no idea on 4G, etc., however I wouldn't recommend tyring to stream porn or YouTube videos...