When your cellphone has coverage...
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When your cellphone has coverage...
It really works!
From the Napa Valley Register:
Two 19-year-old teenagers were rescued Wednesday evening from the Oat Hill Mine Trail near Calistoga with the help of the Napa County Search and Rescue team and a California Highway Patrol plane, Napa County Sheriff’s Capt. Leroy Anderson said.
A CHP plane was dispatched shortly after the hikers used a cell phone to call for help at 5:47 p.m. after getting lost off the trail, Anderson said.
The plane spotted the hikers at 6:50 p.m. and a Napa County Search and Rescue team, knowing the hikers’ GPS coordinates, hiked into the area, he said.
Search and Rescue volunteers found the man and the woman at about 9:30 p.m. and led them out of the area, he said. The teenagers, whose hometown is unknown, were not injured.
(I like the fact that they were 19 year old teenagers. Whatever happened to editors?)
From the Napa Valley Register:
Two 19-year-old teenagers were rescued Wednesday evening from the Oat Hill Mine Trail near Calistoga with the help of the Napa County Search and Rescue team and a California Highway Patrol plane, Napa County Sheriff’s Capt. Leroy Anderson said.
A CHP plane was dispatched shortly after the hikers used a cell phone to call for help at 5:47 p.m. after getting lost off the trail, Anderson said.
The plane spotted the hikers at 6:50 p.m. and a Napa County Search and Rescue team, knowing the hikers’ GPS coordinates, hiked into the area, he said.
Search and Rescue volunteers found the man and the woman at about 9:30 p.m. and led them out of the area, he said. The teenagers, whose hometown is unknown, were not injured.
(I like the fact that they were 19 year old teenagers. Whatever happened to editors?)
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Re: When your cellphone has coverage...
Cell towers everywhere there. And this is "beyond the Sierra."
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Re: When your cellphone has coverage...
Yeah, they even try to cleverly disguise them as "trees" ![paranoid :paranoid:](./images/smilies/paranoid.gif)
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Re: When your cellphone has coverage...
Lost on a trail? ![d'oh! #-o](./images/smilies/eusa_doh.gif)
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No kidding. I hate repetitive redundancy!balzaccom wrote:(I like the fact that they were 19 year old teenagers. Whatever happened to editors?)
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Re: When your cellphone has coverage...
Sometimes, despite our misgivings, the system "works". Good for them.
Of course, based on where they were lost, I imagine at somepoint, "hide the bong!" came into play.![self-satisfied smirk :smirk:](./images/smilies/smirk.gif)
Of course, based on where they were lost, I imagine at somepoint, "hide the bong!" came into play.
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Re: When your cellphone has coverage...
Me too. I also hate when people needlessly say the same thing more than once.RooPhillip wrote:No kidding. I hate repetitive redundancy!balzaccom wrote:(I like the fact that they were 19 year old teenagers. Whatever happened to editors?)
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Re: When your cellphone has coverage...
This trail is pretty obscure in places. Lots of use trails around87TT wrote:Lost on a trail?
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Re: When your cellphone has coverage...
i'm assuming somewhere here?
And there's a golf course in the valley.. When is downhill not a good idea ever?
And there's a golf course in the valley.. When is downhill not a good idea ever?
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Re: When your cellphone has coverage...
One thing bothers me about this. Darkness hit, they called 911. It is not that severely cold in Napa. I think they could have hunkerd down and then found their way out in morning. I hope they get charged for the rescue.
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