WA PingI listened to this story on local radio on my way to work this AM. This girl is lucky in many ways; the ability to walk, the direction she chose, the strength to keep on, the weather and more.
That girl is a sharp and tough cookie.
I can't understand how people get into such predicaments with all the available technology. An iPad with one of the aviation apps that has synthetic vision would have prevented this. Or a Garmin or other aviation handheld. The technology is out there. People just need to use it.
Reminds me of this story from a few months ago.
Disorientated girl, 7, knocks on stranger’s door and says she has been in a plane crash
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3243120/posts
We rock!
Hmmmm? Sounds like the pilot was not instrument rated.
WA PingI listened to this story on local radio on my way to work this AM. This girl is lucky in many ways; the ability to walk, the direction she chose, the strength to keep on, the weather and more.
The will-to-live in the human animal never ceases to amaze me.
Seeing a mountain goat in the clouds is never a good thing.
If you’ve been to that area you know it as the Alps of the US...if the driver drove 30 miles to the Mazama Store she must have come out somewhere southwest of Rainy Pass and that is a very densely forested area