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To: raybbr
So, what saved them? The GPS on the cell phone or the coordinates from the bottle?

Don't know but you can rule out smarts. A smart person would not have been up there.

11 posted on 01/16/2008 1:29:01 PM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: org.whodat
"...you can rule out smarts."

There it is.

"They had neither a GPS unit nor a mountain locator unit, which Rollins said was a mistake. He also said they should have carried a shovel for avalanche rescue or building a snow cave and they erred by misjudging the time they'd have before bad weather rolled in".

20 posted on 01/16/2008 1:48:57 PM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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