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Returned GPS: How a Lost Device Logged a Day It Wasn't There

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Returned GPS: How a Lost Device Logged a Day It Wasn't There

A small Garmin reported an elevation 123 feet higher than the land it sat on, powered through a frosty night on a concrete bollard, and logged coordinates hundreds of miles from its owner's route - so what really happened in the four-day, forty-mile gap? This episode hinges on one concrete, inexplicable log entry and the question of how a meticulously kept device recorded a place and altitude its owner insists he never entered.

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the device's discovery to the entries inside its internal log, following the people who found and owned the GPS and the timestamps that refuse to align. How did a device registered in Spokane record an elevation override at a campsite, vanish, then reappear days later in Colville National Forest?

Person: Sherry Baker
Person: Larry Hill
Person: Nadine Pell
Device: Garmin eTrex 32x
Date: July 28 (elevation override), August 3 (reappearance)

- At 7:42 AM on a February Tuesday the GPS sat powered on at a roadside rest area reading elevation 842 feet while the actual ground was 719 feet.
- Sherry Baker took 17 photographs of the device before logging it with the maintenance attendant and posting one photo to a birdwatching group.
- Larry Hill bought the Garmin eTrex 32x in June for $140 and registered its serial number the same afternoon.
- On July 28 the device recorded an elevation override of 842 feet at coordinates matching Larry's last campsite in the Selkirk Mountains.
- The GPS reappeared on August 3 at a gravel pull-off inside Colville National Forest, sat for 11 minutes, then moved southwest at vehicle speed with the carabiner missing.

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