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That "lodge" the 3 girls had to stay in was the Salish Lodge & Spa [0], which is pretty damn expensive. I recognized it from a stay there once, it's a beautiful

by ok_dad 4y ago

That "lodge" the 3 girls had to stay in was the Salish Lodge & Spa [0], which is pretty damn expensive. I recognized it from a stay there once, it's a beautiful area, I think it was $300-$400 for the cheap rooms. Hopefully, these companies can figure out a way to prevent this, or to warn the users when they might lose access to the car, or else someday this will be a national news article when a whole family dies in a desert somewhere. [0]: "Salish Lodge & Spa, Railroad Avenue, Snoqualmie, WA 98024"

int_19h 4y ago
Snoqualmie is 4 hours away from Forks by car, but the article says that it took them 45 minutes to drive back to the trailhead next day, so it must've been some other place. The photo in the article is probably from earlier in their roadtrip - if you're driving to the Olympic peninsula from the east, stopping somewhere in the I-90 corridor is natural.
- mikestew 4y ago
  There was also some mention of Rattlesnake Lake, which is in about the same area(ish) of the Salish Lodge, but equally as distant from Forks as Snoqualmie. So I don't know what the whole story is, either. OTOH, the point of the story has nothing to do with their exact location in WA, either. :-)
- tomcam 4y ago
  Confirmed. Live near the falls, have driven to Forks. That’s a 4+ hour trip not 45 minutes.
- ok_dad 4y ago
  The natural area around there had very bad cell service, plus I recognize the little store they made a call from in the article as the little store inside Salish lodge. Plus, it was 45 minutes from the trail where they got picked up by the couple, not 45 minutes from Seattle that they mentioned in the article?
  - int_19h 4y ago
    There are many natural areas around Western WA with poor-to-non-existing cell coverage. It's pretty bad around the Lodge specifically, true - I live in North Bend (which is also near the Snoqualmie Falls and the Lodge), and coverage on the outskirts of the city is bad enough that when we moved here a few years ago, we had to get phones that could do GAN / WiFi Calling to have reliable service. But the article specifically talks of the Olympic National Park, which is also mostly uncovered. And even if they were hiking somewhere in the eastern parts of it, there's no trailhead anywhere on the Olympic peninsula that's 45 minutes away from the Salish Lodge. OTOH 45 minutes is exactly how long it takes to get from the Lodge to Seattle in normal traffic, so it would make sense if the car was already towed there by then. But then the article specifically talks about "45-minute drive back to the trailhead". I suspect it's just a case of a non-local journalist misunderstanding some of the pieces from the interviews and cobbling the story together the best they could.
    - ok_dad 4y ago
      Ah I see, yea I’m not from around there either, so maybe things got mixed up in the article because I totally missed that they were hiking in Olympic park. Hopefully the girls didn’t need to eat the unexpected hotel stay, wherever it was.
      - ChoGGi 4y ago
        The article mentions Zipcar paying a $365 cab bill for another family, so it's possible?
Aged6395 4y ago
It's also the iconic Great Northern Hotel from Twin Peaks.
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by ok_dad 4y ago

int_19h 4y ago

Snoqualmie is 4 hours away from Forks by car, but the article says that it took them 45 minutes to drive back to the trailhead next day, so it must've been some other place. The photo in the article is probably from earlier in their roadtrip - if you're driving to the Olympic peninsula from the east, stopping somewhere in the I-90 corridor is natural.

mikestew 4y ago
There was also some mention of Rattlesnake Lake, which is in about the same area(ish) of the Salish Lodge, but equally as distant from Forks as Snoqualmie. So I don't know what the whole story is, either. OTOH, the point of the story has nothing to do with their exact location in WA, either. :-)
tomcam 4y ago
Confirmed. Live near the falls, have driven to Forks. That’s a 4+ hour trip not 45 minutes.
ok_dad 4y ago
The natural area around there had very bad cell service, plus I recognize the little store they made a call from in the article as the little store inside Salish lodge. Plus, it was 45 minutes from the trail where they got picked up by the couple, not 45 minutes from Seattle that they mentioned in the article?
- int_19h 4y ago
  There are many natural areas around Western WA with poor-to-non-existing cell coverage. It's pretty bad around the Lodge specifically, true - I live in North Bend (which is also near the Snoqualmie Falls and the Lodge), and coverage on the outskirts of the city is bad enough that when we moved here a few years ago, we had to get phones that could do GAN / WiFi Calling to have reliable service. But the article specifically talks of the Olympic National Park, which is also mostly uncovered. And even if they were hiking somewhere in the eastern parts of it, there's no trailhead anywhere on the Olympic peninsula that's 45 minutes away from the Salish Lodge. OTOH 45 minutes is exactly how long it takes to get from the Lodge to Seattle in normal traffic, so it would make sense if the car was already towed there by then. But then the article specifically talks about "45-minute drive back to the trailhead". I suspect it's just a case of a non-local journalist misunderstanding some of the pieces from the interviews and cobbling the story together the best they could.
  - ok_dad 4y ago
    Ah I see, yea I’m not from around there either, so maybe things got mixed up in the article because I totally missed that they were hiking in Olympic park. Hopefully the girls didn’t need to eat the unexpected hotel stay, wherever it was.
    - ChoGGi 4y ago
      The article mentions Zipcar paying a $365 cab bill for another family, so it's possible?

Aged6395 4y ago

It's also the iconic Great Northern Hotel from Twin Peaks.

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