[pct-l] Lost GPS in Section R

[Tortoise]

I can't recall if I had labeled it or not. :-(

The next time I will -- try to get one both on the outside and inside the 
battery compartment.

When I was using a GPS from the National Park Service, it had a strip of 
bright orange flagging tape attached to make it easier to find in the 
brush. Which I had done that.

I was going to attache the lanyard to a mini-caribiner hooked onto the pack 
strap but apparently didn't.

Oh well, living and learn. And I didn't particularly like the software of 
the Garmin anyway.

Tortoise

<> Because truth matters! <>

On 09/15/10 07:33, Don Billings wrote:
> Bad news on the lost gps.
>
> Was it labeled with your contact label as per
> the recent posting discussion?
>
> Side note: I met a section hiker man who lost his SPOT device on the trail once.
>
>
> As luck would have it, he had subscribed to the auto transmission function
> and it continued to broadcast. So, he contacted his sister who was
> online and who could view his account. She directed him to where
> it was broadcasting from which was a ranger station about 40 miles
> from his last hike location. He drove there and requested it from
> the employee who didn't know what it was and who had put it on
> her office window sill.
>
> Turned out that an HONEST hiker turned it in to the ranger, but
> she didn't post any signage about "found" electronics&  just drove
> back to her station with it. (what good would that have done?)
>
> It could have been a bomb for all she knew since the little red
> light was blinking the entire time which was about four hours.
>
> Don
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Tortoise<Tortoise73 at charter.net>
> To: PCT List<pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Sent: Tue, September 14, 2010 6:17:11 PM
> Subject: [pct-l] Lost GPS in Section R
>
> Hi All,
>
> I went for a trip along the PCT from Cook&  Green Pass towards I-5 from
> last Friday to yesterday.
>
> On Friday, 09/10, I left the trail with my GPS but when I stopped for a
> break about 1 1/2 hours later I couldn't find it. I went back to Cook&
> Green looking for it and didn't find it. Today I drove back up there and
> hiked the same segment again and still no luck.
>
> My GPS is a Garmin eTrex Vista HCx and has a micro SD card in it. Reward to
> finder.
> If found pleae contact me via list or fone 707-464-1138.
>
> I also checked at the Seidad general store, cafe, and PO.