Sorry I lost contact with everyone. I got stuck.
I followed the signal east and concluded that since I was getting bounces
off of San Jacinto, Santa Rosa and Toro Peak that the transmitter must be south
on the 15 Fwy. So I went south on the 15 FWY. I gave up that notion about the 79
and headed east, planning to make some kind of decision about turning north
somewhere before Indio.
My daughter had just bought 20 acres south of Hemet and they were out there
surveying and dousing for water and I decided to run up R3 and visit. Had to go
north somewhere anyway. Got there and the signal was now off of hwy74 and since
I was running out of map going to Palm Springs anyway, that was a good place to
visit next.
I chatted with my daughter a while and decided I would check out some dirt
roads in the area on my way out of their land. I got stuck. Actually I got
sucked into a quagmire. The ground looked very solid with a little runoff
crossing the road, but when I went through it the 4Runner just sunk until the
frame was sitting into the mud a bit. It wouldn't move.
I walked back (about 2 miles) to my daughters and convinced my son-in-law
Gary (see the article where I got stuck on Liebra mtn) to bring his Jeep and
pull me out.
I was pooped after the walk back so I was little good at the digging and
jacking and swearing and kicking and other actions necessary to extract the
4Runner. I took about 2 hours of hands-on hard labor to get enough under the
wheels out from under the frame to move the thing. I went back to their land and
as now Gary was 3 hours behind in his surveying, I helped until dark. The
Transmitter was dark when I once again hit the road to go home.
I failed to bring my cell and I did yell on the radio, but no one heard me.
Sorry I didn't let you know I left the hunt.
Jippy