Outdoor Adventures

Dennis, a pilot and Manager of Special Operations (overseeing firefighting, disaster relief, incident response and security services) for Evergreen Helicopters International Inc, a worldwide company headquartered in McMinnville, OR wrote in with the following story:

I am using an iFINDER GPS while working on a Space Shuttle Columbia Recovery Team.  I use the iFINDER as my primary source of tracking my grid pattern.  We have recovered several pieces of the shuttle and are currently working a grid directly under the shuttle's flight path which means we will probably find more items as we continue our search. Recently, I also used my iFINDER to locate a helicopter that was stranded in an East Texas National Forest. All I had was a lat/lon to work with, but with the iFINDER I was able to follow the map on screen and navigate directly to the aircraft by way of county roads deep into the interior of the forest.  I'm going to request that all of the company support vehicles have an iFINDER on board.

Alejandro, a Lowrance employee, accompanied by his sister, his father and his GlobalMap 100 made the four day trek to the summit of this 3,095 meters high mountain in Baja California

John Hamer sent in the following story:

Here's one for the book, fishing in the Southern North Sea out of Bradwell on sea last spring with my mate Dave.  Had located and returned to a wreck on several occasions using the LMS-350A but on this occasion a lively smoothhound took one of our rods for a swim and it was last seen flying out over the transom into 40 feet of turgid Thames Estuary water.  This is a usual happening at this time of year and my own fault for not securing the rod in the rest.  However, we became the laughing stock of the rest of the lads and had to wear it.  Ten days later we fished the same wreck and believe it or not Dave hooked up with the missing rod on this first cast.  It was recovered intact only requiring a wash and oiling to put it back into service. The mockers did not want accept this story but when we produced the rod had to.  They put it down to pure luck, but we put it down to the excellent returnability of of Lowrance GPS system, and maybe just a little lady luck.
 

Jamey glides down the Illinois river near Talequaha, Oklahoma.  Jamey uses his GlobalMap 100 to map his entry and exit points on the river, which is very helpful when coordinating drop off and pick up

While this stretch of the Illinois is not known for its whitewater, Jamey does manage to catch a few waves.

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