The bottle, apparently left by someone playing an adventure game, held map coordinates giving their precise location. And the two Portland men spotted it just as searchers called their cell phones -- which they mistakenly believed had stopped working for good the night before. "
So, what saved them? The GPS on the cell phone or the coordinates from the bottle?
Oh Friedrich, Freidrich Nietzsche, what was that you were saying about God?
There was a DVD at the movie rental place called “Touching the Void” that was pretty good. I mean, if you’re interested in that type of thing...
I wonder if it was left by these adventurers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ekugPKqFw
they’ve been given a gift ... i hope they take advantage of it
LARP to the rescue!
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The guy who placed the cache is apparently part of PNW Search and Rescue... I hope he's not attracting his own rescues ;~)
Just on the off chance that we might need it, I carried a simple GPS on a car trip up the Oregon coast just after that very bad storm in early December. We also had a cell phone, a two-meter ham handheld, and a fifty-watt capable two-meter ham mobile transceiver. We might have gotten stranded but I was pretty confident that I could summon help and tell them where we were.
Cool. Geekiness saves lives.
The last message I ever got from a bottle said "you're the disco king, ask her to dance..."