Posted on 04/07/2022 11:49:56 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Nine days after Ronnie and Beverly Baker were last seen in their RV while driving through Nevada, the missing Indiana woman was found alive on Tuesday. Although family members say Beverly is "doing okay," her husband has died.
Ronnie, 72, and Beverly, 69, were located in a "remote mountain area of Esmeralda County near Silver Peak, Nevada," Tuesday afternoon, the Esmeralda Sheriff's Office said in a statement on Wednesday.
"It was determined that Ronnie had passed away. Beverly was alive and in good spirits considering what took place," police wrote, noting that she was airlifted out of the area and eventually taken to Renown Medical Center in Reno.
The discovery came hours after authorities were able to locate their RV around 11:30 a.m. "Due to the remote area where the motorhome was located it took several hours for these teams to reach it," police wrote, adding that upon their arrival, they discovered that "the motorhome appeared to be stuck."
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Google Maps suck when it comes to driving directions.
First they got their motor home stuck in the Nevada Mountains. So they unhooked their Kia Soul - drove it two miles to get help - but got stuck also.
Long ago I learned GPS isn’t magic and it’s essential to have a conventional map to supplement it. I’m 79
Lots of very dangerous terrain in NV. If you don’t know, don’t go. LOTS of places with no cell service for a long stretch on a main road*. We were in such a stretch in east Nevada a couple years ago and I told Mrs rktman if something happens out here, good chance you won’t make it to sunrise.
*If only branDUHn would get the infrastructure fixed....
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Map reading and land navigation are becoming lost arts in large segments of the population.
I’ve had GPS take me to a remote area that was supposed to be motel I was looking for and it turned out the motel was almost across the road from where I started.
I live in a remote area in the Hill Country. It’s not hard to get to, but if you follow Google Maps it will take longer. It might save a mile or two, but it will take you down some back roads that an RV should not be going down.
I’ve quit using Google Maps for driving directions. But it’s funny - Waze uses Google tech but it is a whole lot more accurate than Google when it comes to basic directions.
One article I read said the couple didn’t set their GPS for highway driving. I would bet they foolishly trusted Google Maps and relied on that. And it killed the gentleman.
Never understood the whole RV thing! see ‘Breaking Bad’!
Actually that's a good idea even if you're planning to stay at Walmart parking lots.
Did you every drive into a lake because TomTom told you too?
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Yeh. One article I read had one of the relatives bitterly blaming authorities for not issuing a Silver Alert in time. Why no Silver Alert? Because the couple were not Nevada residents.
Hoo Boy. I guess I’d be bitter also.
When the road looks bad stop driving.
How about staying at a 4-star hotel? At least you’ll know where you are (and can jump on the beds)
Maybe they only got a Bronze alert! Someone has to finish third!
Obviously, the man was driving.
Men always refuse to ask for directions.
I would think I would enjoy everything about RV'ing, except the expected kooks that you know you would run in to out there in the wild.
This is rather similar to that incident a few years ago with a Canadian couple who got into snow trouble at high elevation north of Elko NV, they were missing for six weeks, eventually ATV riders came across their stranded RV and found the woman alive, the husband had tried to hike through the snow-covered terrain to where he thought help could be found, and he froze to death up there. This was in the Jarbridge wilderness area and started in mid-March, ended in early May IIRC.
Also in their case, trusting GPS was the problem, and it was entirely unnecessary to make the turn, they basically thought it would be an interesting scenic side trip to get from one south-heading highway (the one that ends up in Wells) to another (the one that ends at Elko). They could have gotten to Elko in three hours otherwise.
In that case, a much longer wait for rescue, the woman was quite disoriented and dehydrated, had survived over a month on basically a few cookies and candies they happened to have along for the drive. They were headed for LV to attend a trade show and it was at least a week before anyone realized they were missing because nobody was expecting to hear from them. Also when it became apparent, nobody knew within a hundred miles where they could be, as their last known location was at a gas station in Baker City OR (which tells me having made the same trip that they were almost out of gas too, no idea why they didn’t fill up again but the RV was out of gas by the time the ATV people showed up). And all the time, unknown to either of them, there was a ranch house a few miles away over a hill. The guy should have tried walking back east and down into snow-free terrain, he would probably have made the highway if he didn’t run into somebody earlier. Going west just condemned him to a certain death, a thirty mile hike through deep snow.
Should have towed using a real truck. We pull ours (21 ft) with my 5.3L V8 pickup. I wouldn't dare go smaller.
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