[Geysers] Death Valley lost people

[TSBryan at aol.com]

this has nothing to do with geysers... but I was talking to gazers about  
this matter while out in the UGB... and it bears a less on for all.
 
In early August 2009, a woman was located near death in remote southwestern 
 Death Valley National Park. Her dog was still alive but here son had died 
of  dehydration. The attached map's red star shows were they were found.  
Crazy.
 
How did they get there? Well, after changing a flat tire, the woman  
apparently asked her in-car GPS device to figure a route to a repair shop. So it  
did. Never mind that Owl Hole Spring Road does not, and never did go through 
to  Trona or Ridgecrest, but rather that it dead-ends at a military 
boundary.
 
Moral -- don't trust your GPS if you are away from developed areas or major 
 highways. Shoot, even here in Oro Valley my step-son got lost trying to 
find a  Walgreen's. Honest. GPS told him to turn half a mile short of the 
correct  street.
 
Scott Bryan
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