Missing in DV

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It sounds to me that their Subaru was near the summit before dropping into Gold Valley. It’s been since the autumn of 2002 that I’ve been to the end of the road where the canyon starts to drop off the mountains into the valley. But I camped for two days at Furnace townsite and at the Ramsey townsite of Greenwater. At both places I had great cell phone reception and made drop-free phone calls each evening with a Motorola flip phone. I haven’t a clue as to where the cell towers were. So my thinking is that if their car was east of the summit (in ‘02 the summit was too rough for that kind of car), they would have been able to call out. I don’t know if they even tried, maybe assuming that there just wasn’t any signal in such a remote place.