xy9ine Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 found my iphone pretty stoked about this wee ditty. i was boarding at cypress (vancouver) wed night where i proceeded to lose my phone out of an unzipped pocket. dumb, yes. i had no idea when or where it came out. it was a 30cm night previous, so there was pretty much zero chance it'd be on the surface; lots of snow getting pushed around. despondent, i headed home without my interweb umbilical. side note: being offline is a strange and disorienting state of being. got home, fired up the 'find my iphone' app on icloud and got this: stoked! alas, it was too late to get back up there at this point, and i had to leave it for the night alone & cold on that snowy peak. next morning, my primary concern was that it was going to get chunked through the groomer. a test call confirmed it was still alive, and the position hadn't changed. i spent an anxious day worrying that it would get crushed underski, and was able to finally launch the search party after super. with the finder app loaded on my wife's phone i headed to the tagged area. did a sweep of the region with my phone ringing but could hear nothing. it seemed hopeless. zoomed in on the map and tried to locate myself as precisely as possible using the nearby snow guns that i could see on the map as reference points (the google satellite map is a couple years old). got on my hands and knees & rung the phone - by the powers of ullr and steve jobs i faintly heard the old phone ringtone call out for help. i started digging frantically, and about 8" under well packed snow i uncovered it from it's icy would be grave. the baggie it was in was ripped, but freezing temps had kept it dry, it it was otherwise unscathed. so rad. those of you w/ iphones, make sure 'find my iphone' is turned to on in the icloud settings. amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carvedog Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 I love a happy ending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.oldsnowboards.com Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Very cool!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gcarve Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 I'm glad you found your iPhone before it was damaged, or "found" by someone else. I have the "Find my iPhone" app on and activated on iCloud on my iPhone. Hope I never have to use it. It's nice to know it actually works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skatha Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 "by the powers of ullr and steve jobs"...... I can't help but wonder if this isn't a tad too blaspheming......I'd make a quick offering to assure Ullr you aren't equating him with a master capitalist.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEBSIGHT360 Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Love this story...:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.a Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 In situations where there is a slight chance of me losing my iphone, i.e. snowboarding, i always turn on the lock option where you have enter a code. im sure everyone has lots of data, email or other sensitive info that in the wrong hands could be disastrous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futahaguro Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 My Android phone always has a lock on it but I don't have a find-my-phone style app, but was just recommended "Lookout". I guess I need to start browsing because this is something that I would like to be able to do. Glad you found it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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