Searchers find man by his iPod’s glow
A lost mushroom picker was spotted and rescued after search teams saw the glow of his iPod early Friday morning. 25-year-old Pini Nou of Vancouver, Wash., was spotted by a member of a Benton County Search and Rescue unit in the deep woods of southwestern Benton County at 1:12 a.m.,
The underbrush was so thick, it took the searchers a full 22 minutes to reach Nou, who, lacking a flashlight, had been trying to use the faint glow of his iPod Nano display as a light source. It took several more hours to get him safely out of the woods,
Nou, however, helped searchers by making calls from his cell phone when he could find a signal, describing his surroundings as best he was able.
“We worked with the Hull-Oaks people, who were wonderful,” Peirson said. “Very knowledgeable about the area. … We had little bits of information — it was like a detective case.”