Posted on 05/07/2011 7:56:43 AM PDT by decimon
A Canadian tourist missing in a remote wooded area of the US state of Nevada for seven weeks has been found alive near her stranded vehicle by hunters.
Rita Chretien, 56, told police her van had got stuck in mud in mid-March, and that her husband Albert, 59, had gone to get help on foot.
She said she had survived since then on "trail mix" snack food and water.
Police abandoned the search for the couple in April but have now resumed the hunt for Mr Chretien.
The couple were driving from their home in Penticton, British Columbia, to Las Vegas, when they decided to go off-road to see the landscape in Elko County, one of America's largest and most sparsely-populated counties.
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If you do the research...it’s around a dozen episodes a year. The problem is that folks think that you can go a mile off the pavement and find scenic places to just stand....then they decide to drive two or three miles down another road....and never get back to the pavement.
Unfortunately, cells phones are a “jack of all trades.” You really need a professional GPS and even then, they are not 100% foolproof.
Using a cell phone to navigate in remote areas is foolish but people do it.
I think a recalibration is due.
My GPS on my Droid is within a few meters when it’s getting a good read.
I rarely use them to be honest.
I grew up with charts and compasses for both on land hiking and ocean sailing.
and a photographic memory of where I was before and an acute sense of east west
but a GPS does beat a road map for ease if going somewhere brand new...but have a map as backup
on the sea we had to rely on RDF and Loran C..Sat Nav was expensive, cumbersome and you could only get reads on occasion daily and if you missed it..tough
and when Loran developed the ability to just broadcast Long Lat position rather than those elliptical axis reads it was a vast improvement
Best when viewed after a couple of six packs.
I know it's not supposed to be funny seeing someone get hurt, but It will make your day seeing someone that stupid get a quick education.
LOL-
>> They probably followed the GPS blindly without using any common sense.
Well, at least they had a GPS. Most of the dumba$$es who get lost in the Colorado wilderness don’t. The good part: The Gummn’t gets to buy lots of neat search & rescue toys with our tax $$s.
From: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/waddy
wad·dy 2 also wad·die (wd)
n. pl. wad·dies Western U.S.
1. See cowboy.
2. A cattle rustler.
You see that! I learned something new today! Thanks. I plan on using the term at least once this week so the kids know the word as well.
The Ruby Mountains are really beautiful.
Cowboy.
Okay, I want to get this straight in case I need to ever do this. First, you let the air out of the spare tire and then you set it on fire, right?
When my Droid GPS gets ‘off’, I have found that a reboot seems to work to realign it.
Yup, I suspect no one knew where they were. I was out hunting near White Elephant Butte a few years ago and there was a camp of Elko boys having ATV races at 2 am. Naked and tearing across the outback.
She may have thought of that but decided not to risk the Obama EPA coming after her with an arrest warrant and a long sentence in a federal prison!
That's a joke, but not by a great margin.
Not a joke at all. The feds prosecuted Bobby Unser for getting lost in a blizzard.
Hmmmm, did you ever consider the phone GPS is right and YOU are in "The Twilight Zone"?????
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