Irish_Eyes
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I'll speculate on the cell phone ping. I'd imagine Gails cell phone was pinging off a tower at a high elevation on the mountain. When the jeep went over the cliff and stopped at the tree it could no longer ping the high tower because it was blocked from the side of the mountain and pinged a lower tower in the valley area somewhere.
I think I understand now. The phone was pinging off of one tower, and then pinging off another, lower tower. Although the change in elevation was rapid in reality, the data just probably looked like she had switched to pinging from the lower tower - which would occur if:
1) Someone drove down the mountain, or
2) Someone drove off the mountain.
Because from what I gather from locals, driving off the mountain would be rather unusual, I'm guessing the working theory was that she drove down the mountain and then met with some trouble afterwards.