January 18, 2008

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.

Jan 18, 2008 9:50:13 AM | Geocaching

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Travel Guy

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

Posted by: Travel Guy | March 30, 2008 at 07:48 PM

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