<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18812"></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT><DIV CLASS="aol_ad_footer" ID="94d59e2fbd5321ebac3c7a51f8d7376b"><br/><font style="color:black;font:normal 10pt arial,san-serif;"> <hr style="margin-top:10px"/></font></DIV></BODY></HTML>