If only you could time travel. Then you could go back in time, then forward with the GPS, upload the ride, see where it would get lost, back in time to go do the ride, then make sure you picked it up when it dropped off. You'd then have to turn it off for the sake of good karma.
Alternately, they could put a phone on the thing and you could just keep calling it while you looked for it. Of course the battery would be dead in no time.
Slow day, eh Norm?
My Garmin mount was trashed in a few months. It was hard to get the unit off the snap, yet the piece it was attached to was moving all around. I ditched it and mounted a cell phone case to the stem. Fits tight and protects from scratches, weather etc. If I'm just using it to record and not for the GPS function, it works just fine in the camelback... if you turn it on first.
Kush, do not give up hope. My son lost his cell on a family hike at Norvin Green SP Thanksgiving wknd. We 10 adults, 4 kids and 4 dogs could not find it. My dad(63) took him out the next day and found it just off the trail, 2 miles in with the tinyest section of the phone peeking out from the leaves.
Let me know if you want to borrow my dad.