HAVE YOU EVER BEEN LOST?

[leatherneck]

Never!!!!!!!!!!! A little disoriented at times,but a Marine is never lost.

Back in Colo. a few years back we were working our way back to the truck. Using our Garmin and feeling pretty secure. Well.... that great GPS has to get satelites to work and we lost them. After wondering in what we thought was the right direction I noticed the sun going down. I told Ben we better get ready to lay it down for the night cause it's getting late. Now, we had survival gear with us so I felt we were not in any danger. But thick brush with bear scat everywhere would have made a long night. Then I reached in my pack and pulled out my trusty Marine Corp life saver. I say life saver cause this same compass got me out of a pickle or 2 in Desert Storm. Anyhow, after some map and compass work I shot us an azmuth(sp). I figured we had an hour or so I light left so wht the heck. We were at the road/trail in about a half hour.

Technology is good but the basics always seem to work.

[longbowray]

not me just walk around for 4 day in white river forest in CO  if you come to a canyon name bear canyon dont drop into with out backpack   :D   that 21yr ago and m legs still hurt. lol

[OkKeith]

How's THIS for a junk store find? Ten bucks.

Keuffel&Esser version of the Brunton pocket transit. Shoot an azmith, suss out a slope in percent or degrees, measure the height of anything, survey a mining claim, not much you CAN'T do with this thing.

 
 
 
 
 

[longbowben]

Leatherneck and myself were definitely confused for a while thought we where sleeping in the bush.But he pulled through.  :eek:

[Terry Riley]

AH yes Tracey, you're right. I love that movie.

Terry

[Tom-Wisconsin]

I was a Boy Scout. Learned to use a compass and topo way back then. Never lost but learned the value of a flash light. One summer went to the grand canyon and climbed down the Bright Angel trail all the way to the Colorado river. Took us from eight am to noon. Spent a pleasant hour by the river. Took us till dusk to climb back out. Needed to rest every three steps because of our lungs being from Illinois. Thought we were in good shape. Scary thinking about being in the dark on that climb. No flash light. Made it out but it was very scary.

[Pointer]

Yeah...once. I had wnadered up the mountain chasing grouse with my old HR 12 gauge after a morning of uneventful treestand time with the bow.

It was a beautiful October day...I sat down for  while against a soft moss covered oak and fell asleep. Woke up in the failing light and nothing, I mean NOTHING looked familiar to me. I wandered around a bit but that didn't help..no compass or map...not that I'm very proficient with one anyway. So I told myself to get ready to spend the night. Thankfully I usually stuff my cargo pants pockets with stuff so I had matches and tinder. I spent the night out. THe weather was good so I lucked out. In the morning i walked out in just a couple hours...terribly embarrassing. I hunted that mountain for years...no reason to get lost.

[crotch horn]

I hate to admit it but like a few others it doesn't take much to get me lost. About 5 years ago I bought 17.5 acres next to a huge 1000s of acres of state land. That spring I was walking the land with a forester. We were on our way out when he said wait a minute and took out his compass. We were going the wrong way, turned around and walked out. When out at the road he told me story after story about people getting lost where "no one" could. I got sick and never got back there until the last day of muzzle loader season. When I parked the truck I pulled out my gear to load the gun and pulled out my compass by accident. I took a reading and stuck it back in my bag. Well I sat until pitch black and could not find the trail in. I started walking faster & breathing faster... finally I took the compass and took a reading. I was going the wrong way. So like every red blooded American I decided the compass was wrong and put it in my pocket and started wandering again. After about ten minutes I seopped and told myself this is how people get themselves into trouble. I took it back out and followed it to the road. Took a while but got there. The second I got home I called my brother and told him to never go there or anywhere without a compass. Then I remembered something the ranger had told me. He said it was real easy to get lost there because it is heavily wooded and flat with no streams to follow either. The day I spent up there with him helped me a lot. When I got home that day I stuck that compass in my pack thinking of what he had said to me. My wife had given it to me 5 years earlier and yes, it was still in the package.

[outbackbowhunter]

If lost is defined as being unable to find your way back to the truck or camp, I have never been lost.

I have been 8 or 10 hours late getting back to the truck a couple of times.

Nowadays I can read a map and follow a compass bearing if the magellan gps doesnt work. I also carry two torches and spare batteries.

[Timbuck2]

Lost? Everytime this country boy goes to a big city.heehee

Lost in the woods? Oh yes..one time and found my way out after a hour or two of walking while trying to hear traffic on the road were I left my truck.