There are other dry lakes in the area and some landable roads and actually some fields too. As the above post alludes to, the retrieves can be long sometimes tho. When the airliner relayed the message back to my buddies at the Alvord from 30,000ft, they didn't specify who they were calling and friends all over the entire state started arranging retrieve crews! They figured it out before the actually hit the road. There are vast, uninhabited areas out here in the west and not much cell coverage for long distances.

I still get Christmas cards from that friendly antelope...

Boggs