Sunday, March 18, 2012

Geocache helps save lost climbers on Mount Hood

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Two climbers on Mount Hood have been rescued with an assist from a geocache. The climbers spent the night in a snow cave after a whiteout. They reached authorities via cell phone Tuesday morning and began their descent, but were unable to relay their location since they had no GPS.

Luckily, they stumbled across a geocache, which contained enough clues that rescuers were able to determine their location.


Via the Garmin blog.

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Comments

  1. Travel Guy says:

    That is one of the greatest things I’ve ever heard! It must have been a bigger Geocache. Wow, awesome!

  2. Rita says:

    There are so many awesome cell phone cases and other cell phone accessories coming out right now, I don’t know which to get first.

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