One fall weekend during the “Age of the Blackberry” my children’s youth group was out camping.  On the agenda was a hike in the nearby terrain.  At the end of the hike one of the parents realized that he had lost his Blackberry.  Being he could have dropped it anywhere on the trail during the 3+ mile hike there was a slight groan, it wasn’t flat terrain.  First we asked the Ranger if anyone had turned in a phone, no such luck.  So we then proceeded to retrace the hike dialing his phone # over and over again, since he wasn’t sure if it was on, while others just looked.  Finally about a ½ mile into the hike we heard it ringing.  It was buried under a pile of leaves on the trail and no one would have seen it until spring.  This parent is a lawyer and all his contacts were on this phone.  During the search he mentioned that he had always meant to backup that info.  Wonder if he ever did?

On another trip that I wasn’t on, another parent did the same thing.  The group searched in vain to locate that phone.  After getting home the parent found the phone in his backpack.  I would have never admitted that to anyone or the group who wasted their time looking for it, when he had it all the time.