The disappearance of Lynn Simmons, surveyor
He was probably eaten pretty quickly after dying, so not really surprised nobody found him. But wow, that's a rough crew to just leave a guy in the dust like that.
Wow. That really gives a perspective on how rugged some areas are to work in. Losing a crew member on a job site seems so unlikely in current times.
Also - five or six bucks for a pair of leather boots!
I was running a project in Duck Valley, ID back in the 1995 were we had a lost surveyor situation. The terrain was not very rugged, but it made up for it in remoteness and the sage brush was taller than my 1970 Land Rover. While I was running PPK GPS across the vast nothingness, I had a crew running levels near an old WWII emergency landing strip. The gal on the level with the ATV lost the rodman (don't ask). She basically left him out there at dusk. It was late October when the temps were pleasant during the day but rapidly became bitterly cold when the sun went down. It well into the evening when I finally found him. Kieth was nearly frozen. We still joke about it. That was definitely one of those jobs that we will both remember well into our days in the old surveyor's home.
(don’t ask)
I do not believe that this is a reasonable request to make of us.
I'm not really sure how she lost Keith. Its not like he was more than 300 feet from her. I'll give her that it was dusk. I think she left him with the rod while she took off with the ATV for some reason. The problem was she could not navigate back to where she had left him. There was no real excuse.
Now it just makes the job more memorable, along with a long list of other events and conditions. I need to find some photos for the 'Jeep' post. Somewhere I have some photos of my 70 SIIa Land Rover at an NGS control point on top of a cinder cone.
