Woodsie
Trail Wise!
Colorado
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Post by Woodsie on Mar 22, 2016 15:29:18 GMT -8
I've made a few wrong turns on trails, but I didn't consider myself lost because I always figured out my error rather quickly. The only time I can say I was truly lost was while hunting mushrooms (not THAT kind, but morels ) in the coast range of Oregon. I hit the mother lode of morels, just kept picking and moving on. I totally lost track of where I was and how to return to the road. Fortunately I was with friends and they started yelling for me. When I yelled back, their dog came to me and led me out of the woods. It was a classic Lassie moment
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Post by Lamebeaver on Mar 22, 2016 15:42:03 GMT -8
Lassie no longer does forest rescues, she's updated her resume
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zeke
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Peekaboo slot 2023
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Post by zeke on Mar 22, 2016 15:44:33 GMT -8
GBH has a tale of the map not matching the terrain. Map showed glacial ice, terrain was after the melt.
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Post by swimswithtrout on Mar 22, 2016 16:11:53 GMT -8
• The earth's magnetic field, and hence my compass, does not reverse itself in dense fog. Could be the human. • Mountain ridges often have sub-ridges. Descending a sub-ridge on the right side may be descending the main ridge on the wrong side. ^ ^ This +1 Back in my early "College Years", I got caught twice in a total white-out of lowering clouds while out on some very remote, xc summit climbs, in RMNP. I figured all I needed to do was reverse course and walk my way back down the ridge. But in a complete white out, it's all too easy to cross from one side of the ridge to the other, and I ended up going in a 180* opposite direction. I figured it out after "awhile", when I hadn't intersected the trails where I thought they should be,returning on my xc jaunt, so I had to pull out my compass and had the sudden shock of thinking my compass must be bad.... It only took a few seconds to realize it was me that was wrong Lessons were learned, and in a white out, or lack of sight xc hike, my compass never leaves my hand. (I guess that shows my age, but I still don't own a GPS)
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tigger
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Post by tigger on Mar 22, 2016 16:15:37 GMT -8
I remember the conversation well..."Why is the river flowing the wrong way?" "How did we get on the wrong side of the river?"
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Post by hikingtiger on Mar 24, 2016 9:55:57 GMT -8
Once, many years ago when doing an end-to-end, key swap hike, there might have been a moment when "Dave knows the trail well" proved to be very not true.
Now I make sure that I have a map even on trails that I "know well." Allowed Dave to live because "if you kill 'em, they won't learn nothin'. "
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Post by Grizzly James on Mar 24, 2016 11:51:10 GMT -8
I spent most of the day in a sphagnum bog once, looking for a trail. I looked and looked but to no avail. I wandered amid the Tamarack trees and the pitcher plants, scratching my head, trying to appear dashing, seasoned and wise. But I admit, I was a might confused even so. Didn't know the tip of my nose from my big toe. So I took a break from route finding and did what any man would do, I took a poop!
I scampered up behind some bushes, as if privacy even mattered right then, and did my business with a certain precision reserved for house cats or the like. Tweety birds flirted about, and the sun even came out from behind the gray clouds. Whilst I was hunkered there, a relief suddenly flooded my soul. Not from what you think tho, but the sun had come out you see, and cast it's golden beam through the dank air, and illuminated the trail right before me, the one I had been so feverishly searching for. There it was. In point of fact, and to my dismay, I discovered I was taking a dump right on it. Go figure.
This is usually about the time when a girl scout troop would come marching by, but mercifully, such was not to be. I nonchalantly took care of things, and moseyed onward like nothing had even happened. You got to.
I stay out of bogs now. Just because.
-GJ
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BigLoad
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Pancakes!
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Post by BigLoad on Mar 29, 2016 19:14:09 GMT -8
I've never been lost, but on a few occasions it took me quite a while to get back to a known location. If I was lost, I couldn't have done that, right?
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Post by hikerjer on Apr 1, 2016 18:40:12 GMT -8
"I ain't never been lost, but I do admit to being right confused for several days." - Jim Bridger
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