Davy Crockett Runs the Grand Canyon
My hiking buddy Davy Crockett is running the Grand Canyon again this weekend. This time he is carrying a Satellite Phone and a Satellite/GPS location device. The location device reports his position periodically so we can track his progress on Google Maps. As you can see from the map, his latest position is on the return trip across the Colorado. He just crossed the bridge and is making his way up to Phantom Ranch. Next is the long 5000+ foot climb to the North Rim and the end of his 80+ mile journey which started at 2am yesterday!
He is being sponsored on this run by SKYCALL satellite phones and the SPOT GPS/SAT location device company. So to help with sponsorship, he called into the KSL radio station on their morning outdoor show today. I caught it on the internet from my location at 38.969ºN / 77.341ºW. Here is the recording (7.5MB mp3) if you want to hear what it sounded like live via satellite phone to the radio to the internet to my laptop :-) Not bad!
Update 11/28/2007: Davy just posted his write-up. Fun read.
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Hey Carl, thanks for your support. I enjoyed your rude text messages to my Satellite phone, telling me that I was going too slow and that your Grandmother could move faster. But with this great encouragement, I survived the 33 hour adventure.
Glad I could help from the comfort of my armchair, 2000 miles away. It was surreal to watch a little blip move across the grand canyon and knowing YOU were that blip. But it was also a lot of fun to see “Where’s Davy Now?”. I think we could make it into some sort of game. You could just tell everyone you are going on a trip and then we could tune in to see where you are!
Anyway, I am glad you made it home alive. And I am glad that my nasti-grams helped give you a laugh along the lonely way. You are da man, Davy!