Wednesday, August 6, 2008

GPS leads convoy to cliff

A GPS device led a convoy of tourists astray, finally stranding them on the edge of a sheer cliff. With little food or water, the group of 10 children and 16 adults from California had to spend a night in their cars deep inside the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. They used a global positioning device to plot out a backcountry route Saturday from Bryce Canyon National Park to the Grand Canyon.

But the device couldn’t tell how rough the roads were. One vehicle got stuck in soft sand, two others ran low on fuel. And the device offered suggestions that led them onto the wrong dirt roads, which ended at a series of cliffs. [Unfortunately, they don’t tell us the brand of the device.]

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