Well, the last time I got lost, let's see.
I often walk the woods to the back of my house, and there is a path that leads straight to the highway 101. I have walked it planty of times, and even in the daytime. Part of the path, you walk down where there is rocks (like it was a brook) and it leads to a river which you cross. Somehow, I missed that, and got on the wrong path, so when I goto the river, I didn't see the path continuing on the other side. After a little while, I was a little worried, I couldn't find my way back, I tried to back track. I was like no way am I getting lost in the woods.
This path is barely used at all. Occasionally, ATV's use the path, but very rarely. The last thing I wanted to do was call someone (I think I had a phone with me) or be stranded until morning until someone comes and finds me. I was in the back of my neighbours houses which wasn't too far. I couldn't see them, and I was nude (I'm a Naturist and spend most my time nude).
I did eventually find my way back, after like 40 minutes.
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Another time I got lost (I don't get lost often), was when I was hiking at night another time. I hike at night, becuase I can't hike nude during the day without being seen.
Anyway, remember I said the path behind m house leads to the highway 101? Well, on the otherside of the highway, is an old dirt road, a service road. Cars can't get in there (unfortunatel, they are making it a road now, becuase I see the contruction crew made a path there, which I drove my car there last week or two). Anyway. My plan was, to go on the service road, and there was a field with a path in the field leading down to the lake (kinda a long path, but I love hiking, exploring and going on adventures). I would swim across the lake to a small island where there is a GeoCache. I had my backpack (like always) with my GPS and a pen and paper.
Anyway, I get to the field, the map dosen't tell you mouch about the field, just shows the area, it wasn't a GPS map, so I didn't know what to expect of the field, I just thought it was a flat field. After about 10 minutes of trying to find the path (it's a bug field), I think I finally find it behind a big bile of dirt and stuff. I climb over that and as I make my way down the path, I heard and animal, it was like a crawl or something and I heard it started coming towards me and stop (I never saw it). I kinda freak out and make my way back.
Well, the path the leads up the the pfield is small, compared to how big the field is, it's like a little wider than a driveway, and the field is the size of the 3 football fields (maybe more).
So, I'm making my way over the tarrain, there is a grassy spot too, I making my way to the edge, where I thought was the path. My flash light starts going dim. I fear that my flash light will burnout before making my way back home. It's a 10 minute walk down the service road, and about 12 minutes walk through to woods before I reach my house. I walk along the field for maybe a half hour, looking for the dang path. I couldn't get to the service road without the path, because it was a steep drop and a large bank.
I finally get back onto the service road and moments later I hear the yelping of wolves or coyotes (I'm like of great), I kinda get a little scared. We had coyote problems in the area, people's pets have been eaten or missing. I wasn't sure if coyotes or wolves are dangerous. I knew they can attack, even if it's rare, it's a possibility.
After I cross the highway, my flash light is too dim to see in the woods, I use my GPS the rest of the way which worked out fine. I hate how there is a light exactly in front of the path where I come out at. It sucks, because there is still a lot of traffic on the highway, even at 3 in the morning, so I gotta wait until there is a long enough brake for me to pass without being seen (which could be about 10 minutes or so). It take me just over a minute to cross, because I gotta cross a ditch, after the first lane, I cross the devider which is like a ditch another lane, cross the guard rail and down over a steep hill. before I get to the service road, I gotta cross over a small swamp. Which I end up getting my fet soaked every bloody time. I always miss the grassy island I'm supposed to step on.
Now that they are making it a road now, which I think they are, I don't have much to go, except the woods. I like the service road, because it's open, but there are trees separating the highway from the road. One day, I was going to go and see the lake at the end called drain lake (Which is quite a hike), maybe a good spot for swimming (skinny dipping for me that is). The other week, I drove back there with my car (with clothes on of course, since it was during the day). The alek would not be good for swimming as it's almost like a swamp, the water looks dirty. There are paths for the ATV.
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Another time I got lost, this is the most recent time. Last month my Dad and I went to tag off the property line or something of a lot we bought in Windsor. It was a 25 acre lot, anyway. We we going through some very tough tarrien, we kinda my Dad had the map on his phone, to help him with the property line. We were also relying on the person who owned it before, he had ribbons on trees and stuff. Well, he had so many bloody ribbons of each color, one for that path and this path etc. We took a wrong turn, we got lost for like 3 hours in the bloody woods. It was hot and the mosquito were constant. It was driving my crazy. I kept having mishaps, like slipping over the tough terrain. I'm not sure why my Dad wanted to tag the property line, he wanted to have an idea of how big the lot was I guess. He wanted to put a ribbons at all for corners of the property.
When we came out of the woods, we were all the way on the other side of the neighborhood where the property is, so we had to walk all the way back to where the car was, which was over an hour, and my feet were already sore. About 20 minutes before reaching the property I started to get cramps in my stomach and it started for pour down rain. I hate being in wet clothes.
After, I went home had a shower and went to bed.