Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:05:33 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [VIDEO] The Dempster Highway in a Vanagon Westy
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I had a friend who traveled on a long kayak trip with one of these
things. It was fantastic. It updated his position every fifteen
minutes, it allowed him to mask his whereabouts to anyone except those
with an access code, and it had a distress signal button. they're
getting cheap, too.
Jim
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:24 PM, John Rodgers<inua@charter.net> wrote:
> Little black boxes! Hmmmm! On a trip into the boonies such as this has
> anyone ever thought about taking along one of those personal emergency
> locator beacons that can be picked up by satellite in orbit to locate
> someone in distress? It only takes three passes of the satellite to have you
> triangulated and pinpointed. I guess GPS tells you where you are, but no one
> else knows.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 G Driver
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> Jim Felder wrote:
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>> I'll concede your point... maybe we should be putting "black boxes" in
>> these things?
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>> Jim
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>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Stephen Grisanti<bike2vcu@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> They could have beamed it back from the edge of the earth before they
>>> plunged off, or killed each other.
>>>
>>> --- On Fri, 6/19/09, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [VIDEO] The Dempster Highway in a Vanagon Westy
>>> To: "Stephen Grisanti" <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>
>>> Cc: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
>>> Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 9:19 PM
>>>
>>> Well, we know something about it... they got the footage back to make
>>> the video, at least.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Stephen Grisanti<bike2vcu@yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> I'm 58, but if I could get enough time off to go I'd do it with the same
>>>> gear, although we don't know about their return trip, do we?
>>>>
>>>> Stephen
>>>>
>>>> --- On Fri, 6/19/09, B Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: B Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
>>>> Subject: Re: [VIDEO] The Dempster Highway in a Vanagon Westy
>>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>>> Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 3:17 PM
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's why it's a YOUNG couple. How many old farts like some of us are
>>>> going
>>>> to take a smoking 85.5 Westy with a few new cheap tires and a can a gas
>>>> and
>>>> head hundreds of miles into the wilderness with a T-Shirt and a sweater?
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>> I would have done it when I was 25 but today......
>>>>
>>>> ;^)
>>>>
>>>> Bryan
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
>>>> Of
>>>> levi hawkins
>>>> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 3:02 PM
>>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>>> Subject: Re: [VIDEO] The Dempster Highway in a Vanagon Westy
>>>>
>>>> Geez.... that motor's just a *little* bit on the smokin side...
>>>>
>>>> --- On Fri, 6/19/09, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
>>>> Subject: [VIDEO] The Dempster Highway in a Vanagon Westy
>>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>>> Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 7:36 AM
>>>>
>>>> Canada's most northern highway. Mud. Grizzlies. Some kind of elk
>>>> critter.
>>>> Ferry crossing. More mud. These folk anyone we know?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjx7oidhNSI
>>>> --
>>>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>>>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>>>> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
>>>> Bend, OR
>>>> KG6RCR
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