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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7687 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
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Joey verrry senior member
Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 2794 | TRs | Pics Location: Redmond |
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Joey
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Mon Feb 11, 2019 5:25 pm
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Glad for the happy ending.
Story says:
"Before she slept fitfully, she was able to get a text out to her mother giving her rough location and saying she was injured and likely needed a rescue."
Reminder: The first time you open FindMeSAR.com (I am the developer) you have to be online. But after you open it the first time, you can then open it anytime when you are offline. You can copy the coordinates and accuracy value produced by FindMeSAR and paste them into a text.
The coding technique that lets it work offline is called appcache.
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Vertec Member
Joined: 08 Sep 2018 Posts: 159 | TRs | Pics
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Mon Feb 11, 2019 8:34 pm
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Also have been there a few times.
Great views of Mount Hood from The Mount Defiance summit. But the summit itself is not very pristine due to all the communication equipment and maintenance road used to access it. It's a good climb, but I always had the "Why the $#!!**$ didn't I just drive up here" feeling upon summiting.
From the summit the trail descends through a boulder field and and patches of sparse tree cover. Where the trail meets continuous tree cover, it becomes hard to follow, even in the summer. Any snow cover would make that much more difficult. The tree line/boulder field 'boundary' seems to head directly toward the parking lot, so it can trick a descending hiker into believing they haven't regained the trail yet. Hope she recovers soon.
Out There, carrying the self-evident truth I am endowed by my Creator with unalienable rights of self-defended Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
Out There, carrying the self-evident truth I am endowed by my Creator with unalienable rights of self-defended Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
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MtnGoat Member
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 11992 | TRs | Pics Location: Lyle, WA |
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Mon Feb 11, 2019 9:35 pm
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Note the summary implication at the end...she did not have several of the ten essentials, including the old fashioned analog thingy which tells direction using magnetism, all by itself, battery free. the basics are basics for a reason.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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Foist Sultan of Sweat
Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 3974 | TRs | Pics Location: Back! |
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Fri Feb 15, 2019 1:46 pm
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I have to say I had never heard of this alternative meaning of "benighted" until this post. So thanks!
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forest gnome Forest nut...
Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 3518 | TRs | Pics Location: north cascades!! |
bet she takes the extra 8lb of food,stove, clothes and tarp from now on !!
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uww Member
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Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:34 pm
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forest gnome wrote: | bet she takes the extra 8lb of food,stove, clothes and tarp from now on !! |
Not sure where the stove comes in, but it looks like she will be more prepared in the future.
the article wrote: | She should have brought a shelter and emergency blanket, she said, in addition to her SPOT satellite messenger, external battery charger, paper map and basic compass. |
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NWPhil Member
Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 31 | TRs | Pics Location: Oregon |
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Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:05 pm
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Glad she was found and is ok....but the most annoying thing is hearing the media saying she was an experienced hiker....yeah, going under-equiped with reports of a snow storm approaching
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thunderhead Member
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I found a pair of lost hikers in about the same place calling for help. They had a compass(not that you needed one, it was a sunny day and the columbia is hard to miss... oh and the sign on the trail...). Not sure how they managed to be lost... but i guess the couple of roads back there confuses people...
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