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Looks like you found the "tiny blue 2Gig SD chip" mentioned in post #1!

Definitely safer. I knew there were only half a dozen people going up that day. With the hundreds on a summer weekend, an object could have come down. ...But empty water bottles wouldn't be a problem, and something heavy like a camera would be rare.

Coming down in the evening, I came out some distance west of the "y" where the trail to the backpacker camp splits off.

Going up, I hiked the trail clear up to where the granite steps start climbing the quarter dome. I would NOT want to bushwhack up-hill through that stuff!

Yep!

I hope CaT won't hold it against me for not telling him right away. I just wanted to have some fun with the surprise.

I just can't believe how miraculous it was to find ONLY the chip, lying in plain sight on a small boulder. As if someone had just set it there for me to pick up.

Thanks. Now I have a better picture where you were.

Steve,
Amazing SAR for the chip! Pretty awesome that you found it and I know CaT will be ecstatic.
Congrats!
Adam

very nice OBTW - excellent job Steve

Incredible. I guess you had better be careful not to have any uh..risque photos of the girlfriend (or wife) on those cards when you go hiking..

Awesome, Steve C! What a story..and to find the chip.
Wow!

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I THINK I'M HAVING A CORONARY!!!!!!! (not literally)

I'M SPEECHLESS!!!!!!!!!!

MY WIFE IS HAVING TO HOLD ME DOWN!!!!!

*pant, pant...* Let me settle down for a while and then I'll reply further after reading all of these posts!

"Thank you!" doesn't EVEN begin to express how I feel at the moment!!!!! You have no IDEA how grateful I am for you to have found this chip!

And yes, that IS my chip (and the pictures of me, etc.).


That's putting it mildly!!!!!!

More later ... we were about to run out the door to watch the Buckeyes beat Wisconsin when I did a quick last second check of this MB before shutting down the computer, so I've gotta head out (the Buckeyes game seems so unimportant now compared to this, but gotta go anyway). More later...

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!

CaT

Ohio State 38; Wisconsin - 17 -- What a great day!!

Way to go SteveC!! WOW! This thread has been going on for a long time and to see it end up like this is very rewarding, especially for CaT! Couldn't write (photograph!) a better ending!

Or yourself, unless you want that kind of Internet fame.

Steve - Well worth the wait, my friend! I probably would have done the same if our roles had been reversed! I wish you could have been a fly on the wall at our house when I first saw your post and realized that you had actually found it! I was sort-of like a wild cat on steroids!!

Finding that little blue chip sitting on top of a rock in the middle of all that rough terrain in such a remote place, esp. with the intervening weather and the passage of time since this first happened, is indeed miraculous -- like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. The fact that not even one piece of the camera was nearby is pretty incredible too.

Now that the chip has been found, I'll be going into the camera shop where I bought the camera to get my new "replacement insurance" camera. You can be sure I will take to heart some of the good suggestions mentioned earlier in this post as to better securing and identifying the new camera and its memory chip.

I see the PM icon flashing as I write this, which I assume is a reply from you. So I'll post this so I can read your PM without losing this post here.

Again, thank you so very much! You have made my day, week, month, etc.!! While a chip is only a material thing, its loss had nonetheless been on the back of my mind since it happened, and I feel like a weight has been lifted, thanks to your incredible effort.

This MB is really in many ways like a family. I've never met you, Steve, nor most others here, in person; but yet it's amazing how we all will go to these kinds of lengths for each other, sight unseen. I do hope that we can connect in person some time when we're both hiking in the Sierra.

CaT

Hey CaT,

You're certainly welcome. The satisfaction I have felt was well worth the effort. Heck, just getting up there one more time before winter hits was worth all the effort. Your "needle in a haystack" term is close, but in this case, I think the needle was sitting right on top of the haystack. It's just incredible.

Not sure what else to say -- your sentiments about the board say it so well. And we owe a big thanks to Doug for starting it and keeping it running. None of this could have happened without this board.

Wow! Double wow!! Triple wow!!!

Blue chip resting atop a boulder - think of the chances.

Amen to that! Thanks Doug!

CaT

Seconding the Wow!

Thanks for mentioning me in your Summit Register sign in!

Awesome work Steve!

This is one in a million story.Ripleys Believe It Or Not kind of stuff. Then again it has been said "There are no coincidences".

You and Snowy each tried to get me to the summit in successive previous years; so I wanted to credit both of you for your greatly appreciated efforts.

CaT

Not to worry...

You're not going to send SteveC up toward Thor to find your missing..ahem..stolen water bottles now are you??