worst lost experience

>>784234
i would love to see a wood i can get lost in.
god damn i would pay good money for that experience.
here if throw a stone randomly it will hit something man made.

>>784234
Once got "lost" while "fishing" with a friend.

There was supposed to be this headwater near Covington, MI with good fishing but it had shitty access. It was a 30 min hike one way with giant constant up and down hills and heavy tree cover.

It really wasnt that bad looking back on it. We werent much more than an hour or two hike from 141 or 41. But I wanted to gtfo because the fishing wasnt good, the sun was setting, and my friend had drunk up all my water.

Luckily I wasnt an old lady so I still had my bearings. We picked a vector and followed it 30 min and popped out on an ATV trail 15 ft from our vehicle.

Wasnt techinically very lost but the dispair was tangible.

>>784525
>Luckily I wasnt an old lady so I still had my bearings
I hope she's happy that she'll live on as a meme

>>784253
Where do you live?

AK anon here, and we have about 200 million acres of public land. The bulk of it you can get absolutely lost as fuck on and die if you don't know what you are doing.

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Be me In the arizona desert

>go /out/ wheeling alone
>1984 toyota
>truck breaks down "ohshit.jpg"
>smoke unloading from the hood
>open the hood battery hit the side wall grounded out and exploded along with melting all the wires
>FUCK FUCK FUCK
>start looking through my gear
>had 6 cases of water thank god
>all I got was a .308 win with 40 rds And a 22lr with 550 thunderbolts
>tried using cell phone no service
> didn't leave the truck thought someone would drive by
>#Nope
>was stuck out there for a fucking week
>hunted for small game (rabbit and ground squirrel) only got a rabbit
>a convoy of jeeps drove by looked at me asked me if I was okay
>started to tell them what happened
>towed by strap for 3 hours in the dirt and 4 hours on the freeway home
>never fixed the truck bought a new truck
>never went that way again fuck that place

Pic is of truck that broke down

>>785121
>a week in the Arizona desert

You should have died, you lucky chuffer

>>785146
Honestly thought was it was august when this happened. Cried alot

y'all gonna think I'm a bitch but
>first ever solo overnight camp
>drove my rear wheel drive car into the bush first on gravel track then over some ok sand and dirt, i could pick my track easy and miss the boggy shit
>parked car out of sight and hiked in some
>fast forward I'm lying down going to sleep
>hear dirt bikes and think they are going for my car (this was an excuse for I'm bitching out and want to get to my car)
>pack up and continue to night nav through the bush back to car with only two land marks (game trails) and a bearing on my compass
>after i realise I'm having trouble finding my rig i panic and put all my shit down so i can move quicker to find my car
>realise immediately thats a shitty idea
>pick gear back up and find car after 20 mins night time bush walking
>THEN
>for some reason i decide to drive out of the bush
>hard as fuck in the dark
>end up almost getting bogged because i follow a bit of a trail that leads directly to the softest sand in the area
>get out
>drive home
>found some dude on the side of the road who broke down or some shit
>actually knew the dude
>helped him on his way
>end

>>784234
I'm pretty sure that it would be quite literally impossible to get lost in my country.

Never been lost. I've not known where I was many times but I have never not been able to just walk 10-20 miles and correct the issue.

>tripping balls on psychedelics and weed
>drunk out of my mind
>trying to walk home several miles through the woods
>it's midnight
>flashlight battery dims, then dies

Terifying. Never smoked since.

>solo backpacking in new area
>following old trail, not well maintained
>eventually the trail is just gone
>continue cross-country
>going through the weirdest moss shit I've ever seen
>like 2' deep green moss junk, have to goosestep everywhere
>get to wet area, should be an ATV trail on the other side
>try to cross
>end up waist deep in sludge
>finally get out and over to the ATV trail
>soaked through, no dry pants since was planning one night
>change socks, dry boots as best I can, set out
>should note that it is getting dark and was only 40F at this point
>follow trail for a while, discover that it had been rerouted away from where it used to go (fucking '80s USGS quad maps)
>gonna have to go cross country again to get back to vehicle, or 12mi down the trail to a road
>be moron and go head back east to car
>find a dry area to go through instead of more death sludge
>get going, temp is dropping rapidly
>more of that crazy moss
>have to stop and rest, wrap up in tarp, cook some freeze-dried spaghetti
>having crazy thoughts, I'm gonna die out here, etc. only like 4 miles from vehicle, smack between a busy ATV trail and campground
>literally have cell phone signal and here I am writing a goodbye note to my mom on my map
>get some food in me and get going again
>finally seeing familiar terrain, but all the goosestepping killed my quads
>literally having to use my arms to lift my legs to go over little branches at this point
>get back to car, still soaking wet, feels like it must be close to freezing, just sit there with the heat on for almost an hour before I can start driving
>thermometer in car says 26F

And that is how anon almost ded after covering less than 5 miles in 13 hours. The next day I had to get help to walk up a flight of stairs, couldn't lift my legs high enough by myself. Was over a week before I was walking normally again.

>>785288
What a pussy. I do that every weekend without a flashlight. That is specifically a very fun activity.

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>Cave diving with my dive buddy.
>His friend who has limited experience comes along.
>Buddy assures me he has dived with him before and he's "really good".
>Ok cool.
>take the lead, laying out line.
>contantly checking they are good.
>Viz is about 2 metres so not bad.
>go through a few squeezes, here the viz drops to zero as we stir up silt wriggling through the tight spots.
>See buddies friend is wide eyed, get him to calm down. Sign to him "Heaps of air left mate we aren't even far in. Just relax"
>Get to another squeeze (new territory for me in this cave)
> signal them to stay here and don't follow me until I scope it out as I lay the line.
>go through a longer squeeze, maybe 5 metres long.
>Arms fully extended in front of me wriggling, Barely can fit through.
>come out into a big chamber where the viz is excellent.
>Fuck yeah!
> hover there for maybe 2 minutes completely motionless just taking it in.
> Chamber is probably 15 metres wide where the squeeze comes out.
> about the same deep.
>torch penetrates maybe 40 metres ahead before viz obscures it.
>Fuck yeah!!!!
> Go to tie off on a stalactite and notice that the line has gone slack.
>Go back to the squeeze entrance and pull on the line.
>completely slack 2 metres of it slide out in front of me.
> brain takes a second to process...FUCK!!!!

>>785385
>Apparently buddies friend had tried to follow me in.
>Got stuck in the squeeze, thrashed around and snapped the line.
>Freaking out he got out of the squeeze and bolted back the way we came.
>Buddy follows him not realizing line is snapped and hooked on him.
>Completely stirred up the silt.
>Viz is now zero.
>Shimmy back through squeeze.
>Feel I've come out of it but literally cannot see my hand unless I press it onto my mask.
>proceed to shit myself.
>ZERO VIZ.
>feeling around blindly.
>Can't find the snapped off line anywhere.
>NO BUDDY.
>silt will take hours to clear.
>by then I'll be out of air and dead.
>brain starts going into full panic mode.
>force myself to calm down.
>panic and you die.
>start trying to make my way by feel and memory.
>not sure if I'm going the right way or round in circles.
>come to a squeeze and hope I'm not going the wrong way.
>wrong turn means death.
>exit the squeeze, it felt the right length.
>trying to remember the route. Panic is making it hard.

>>785389
>finning along for what seems like eternity.
>dragging one hand along bottom, one on the side of the cave to stay oriented.
>hit a piece of the cave that I think I recognize the shape of from 3 stalactites close to the side of the cave.
>Holy shit this is good news.
>"wow those fuckers silted this cunt out bad"
>Continue on.
>come to another squeeze, seems like it's the right one.
>wrong dickhead!
> after 3 metres the Squeeze closes down and is a dead end.
> Realize I was wrong about the squeeze
>"You are so fucked here"!
>Try to stay calm, freaking out you're just gonna chew your air faster.
>wriggle backwards and extricate myself.
>press my computer into my mask.
> shows I've been alone for 25 minutes.
>can't see my gauges.
>No idea how much air is left.
>Find another squeeze and go through.
> start moving faster.
> if I don't get out soon I'm fucked
>not sure where I am at this point and starting to fully panic.
>booting it hard, slam headfirst into something.
>a hand grabs my arm!
>buddy came back!
>noticed what had happened to the line and laid his own!
> literally start crying, hard to keep the regulator in through sobs of relief.
>25 minutes of blind memory work and I was only 10 minutes from he exit.
> we get out.
> buddy tells me what happened.
> punch that other cunt in the face.
> took a few months off diving afted that.

>>785390
Holy fucking shit. I got the fear just reading that. Cave diving.... nope.

>14 or so
> Solo camping got meh gear ready for this shit, 22. for protection
> Canadian fag btw been trapping for alot of years
> I jump over a hole and I miss
> about 25-30km into the bush no connection
> Broke my leg by my hip and by my calf.
> Cry about it for a hour or two
> Start crawling back to the trail
> Take out my state phone and hop/crawl/fall to the open clearing and phone the Canadian Air Base for a rescue
> They come out as they are the closest thing to us for help
> Hospital is 3 hour flight
> Flare the helicopter get picked up
> Taken to base and get my leg reset and doped full of drugs
> Mother gets picked up and brought to us (no phone)
> Realize fuck I forgot the 22.
4-5 month's later after healing I find it and it still works.
> Thank god for covers.

>>784234
I've had worse experiences being lost in the supermarket than that you gay homo

>>784919
>Where do you live?
hungary
even the woods are filled with power lines thrash bins, roads, buildings, telephone poles, and garbage, garbage is everywhere.

>>784253
I feel you anon, same here.
Would love to live in a good /out/ country, my country is too small and too crowded.

>>785390
Fuck. FUCK.

I would need a new wetsuit after that, because I would have thoroughly shit myself.

>>785390

How did you resist murdering the noob, jesus christ.

>>785441
why yurope is ruin. Move to america or canada and experience real /out/ while you can

I've never really had a lost experience before.

Closest thing i can think of is this one time a few weeks ago my granny forgot to buy the tendies at the store so i was like kinda starving to death.

I basically survived eating potatochips, Luckily for me they are indigenous to my area.

Not really a "lost" experience but I once had to hike out 7 miles in the dark on a twisted knee.

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I often go into a local wildlife sanctuary alone for my field recordings. It's like 1000 acres in a dark rural town. I go in in the evening to setup and then wait till dark. Usually by around 10pm I'm packing up and hoofing it out of there (I arrange a pickup on the country road where the parking lot is). Anyway, the place isn't supposed to have people in there after dark so the blazes are really hard to see, especially with a crappy LED headlamp that has terrible color rendering. In daylight it's about a 25min hoof to where I record. One night I got totally lost in there while I was trying to escape. Not even on the trail anymore kinda lost, with spoopy ass sounds and things lurking all around me in the dark. My phone gets no service over there so usually there are no calls or texts that go through. Luckily a lone car went down the road at some point and I barely was able to hear it like a mile away through the wood. I just started crashing through the woods in that direction. Got to the field that leads to the parking area right as my friend was pulling in to pick me up.

"yawn. so, how was it? were you waiting long?"

>trying to hike up Mt Whitney from the east side
>3 day trip
>never did Sierras before
>we do a mostly cross country route
>hit a scree wall day 2
>don't even know if this will lead up to Whitney
>almost impossible to climb
>takes so long, we run out of time and have to turn back
>still have no idea where we were or how close we were
The next year we did the Mt Whitney Trail in one day. I still want to try a cross country route up it one day.

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>>785806
>7 miles
welp that sucks. must have made it a lot worse too

>back when I was 14
>Out innawoods with friend and her 18/19 yr old bf
>It's a wooded island, accessable only through walking bridges
>Being that friend and I were both underage, her bf kept gloating about being in charge and being the legal guardian
>He decides to lead, and talks us into going on a 'small' path
>I know it's a deer path and keep saying it's a bad idea but follow anyway because 'friends'
>He acts like he knows where we are going, says it won't be long
>Notice sun is going down, confront the friend's bf
>He takes me aside and admits he doesn't know where he is or where he is going but not to tell friend
>Friend later comes up to me and tells me her bf is planning on having a 3some with us out here or at Least fucking us both out here, but it's supposed to be a secret to me
>I tell her I'm not feeling it, and she says I'll 'get used to it'
>Ididntagreetothis.jpeg
>He tries to coax us onto a fallen tree, I play the lookout card to get out of it
>He is disappointed but says 'ok, maybe after you can rest for a while
>As soon as they start fucking, I skedaddle outta there
>On an island, so I just walk towards the setting sun
>Get on the path and get out of the woods in 10 min
>Get back to civilization before darkness
>Didn't talk to friends after that

Definitely ruined camping for me.

>>784234
My story

>go hiking in a big park north of Houston
>walk down trails with friends, testing out our kukris and machetes
>find weird spot on the trail covered by log, go climb over the log to go "off the trail" and "get lost"
>no path at all, we hack out way through this thick brush
>continue for an hour and a half, being attacked by mosquitos and cut up by thorns
>notice sound, tell friends to stop and head towards it
>go through field of chest high grass, it's music
>burst into someone's huge backyard, the whole family is having a pool party listening to country music
>wearing camo and wielding machetes, fulling expecting to get shot to death
>they laugh and wave at us, we wave awkwardly back
>we ended up in some huge development for these quasi-mansions, we showed up at one of just a few houses that were populated
>stumble around empty street, eat the rest of our food and drink all our water
>suns rapidly setting, set off across dirt field with huge construction vehicles
>end up walking down a highway at night
>group gets into an argument and splits up
>walk down old road with cemetery on it, into this weird back road that says no trespassing, friend thinks he sees UFO and freaks out
>after a few hundred feet, we turn back, afraid of being on logging land after dark (we actually were on a shortcut and were like 15 minutes away from car)
>other group gets to car, they're just standing there with park guys around them, explaining the situation, we have the keys to the car
>walk down highway again
>30 minutes later make it to front of park, rangers pick us up, we ride in back of pickup to our car and promptly leave

It was pretty fun, I was super tired afterwards though

>be 19
>northern Mississippi
>place called black panther bottom
>grandpaw has an old small house where he lives alone way up in the maintains there
>literally nothing but trees as far as the eye can see in any direction
>visiting grandpaw with older sister
>he tells us scary stories about murderers in the mountains and prison breaks
>come midnight
>hear a blood curdling scream right outside, sounds exactly like a woman
>grandpaw and I grab rifles and run outside
>cloudy and new moon, 0 visibility
>he runs left, I run right
>hear another scream about 100 yards down the dirt path deep into the dark woods
>follow it
>keep hearing noises just further in the woods
>keep following
>realize how fucking stupid that was about 25 minutes later
>can't see a single thing, completely lost
>no more noises, just loud missippi bugs
>hear two gun shots very far away
>about 4 hours pass of me wandering around in pitch darkness
>sun comes up, find way home
>grandpaw fucking shot two black panthers in the night
>tells me 'they make that sound like a scream when they're huntin'
>he let me wander off alone at night while black panthers were hunting

I can't build the atmosphere properly on here by I swear to you all I had never been more terrified

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>>785678
It was hard to resist the blood mist. Exploded his nose so bad he needed plastic surgery though.
>>785511
I was wearing a drysuit so shitting in it would have been even worse than in a wetsuit. Haha
>>785410
Yeah I would wake up in the night terrified after having nightmares about it for a while. Just that feeling of pure fear, of groping blindly, in such a tight squeeze and with no sense of direction...lasted until I went back and conquered that feeling.
It's true what they say about getting back on the horse

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>>785390
>>> punch that other cunt in the face.


>being a little resentful hedonistic cunt

end self

>>785851
Are you a faggot? Why did he assume you'd want to take his hard veiny cock up your boibucci?

>>785979
>haha bro don't sweat it
>no I wasn't terrified
>no I didn't almost die
>no I wasn't in 0 visibility for half an hour
>it wasn't your fault

Leave him alone bully

>>785979
Did you miss the part where anon's friend's friend insisted he knew what he was doing?

>>785829
Guy?

>>785829
>Definitely ruined camping for me.
well shitty people are everywhere but look at the bright side at lest you were given a choice not raped. that's perfectly civilized.

>>785164
That's crazy. You;re lucky you had that water (you're smart to have brought that water).

Where in AZ?

>>784234
>me and 3 friends backpacking through north sweden
>no map (Oh we had a map but it was shit)
>Idea was just to circle a mountain and get back and follow river south
>get on mountain ~600m
>Slowly make out way down
>get down on the other side
>very warm summer
>each person carry ~3 liters of water + small bottle
>been drinking so much water on our way up and we are almost done with the water when we come down
>down to a total of 2 liters
>heat heat heat
>3 hours later
>sun is baking
>considering pissing in my bottle for safety
>2 hours later my friend hears a stream
>camp at stream and drink from it
>follow it to river next day


Not really that dangerous but we were newbies

>>785427

Things that never happened.

>>784234
>What was your worst lost experience in the wild?

>be in the wild
>have portable dvd player and LOST box set
>watch LOST
>it was purgatory the whole time
>get pissed
>go home

>>785390
Fuck, that was intense O_O

>>785979
Tech divers are pretty annoying. Worse than fisherman at exaggerating stories.

>>784234
I've spent alot of time deep in the woods in many different places. I've never been truly 'lost'.
There are times when i am orienteering through the bush off-trail and it takes me awhile to find my destination or point of interest.
But never been lost. Always have at least general idea where i am in respect to my surroundings, chosen landmarks, my starting point and my destination.
Its simply a matter of using a map and compass, and keeping track of how far or for how long you've traveled in any given direction. with this its easy to always maintain awareness of your position.

From my perspective, I literally cannot understand why people allow themselves become lost.
Someone would have to kidnap me, blindfold me and drop me off in the middle of nowhere in the dark in order for me to even get into a situation where I dont know where I am.

>>784234
those are great adventures OP.
In many locations where I hike. If I did become lost. I know that if I at least just find a stream I can follow it down and down until eventually I will find civilization

>>786155
Yep.

"So there I was..."

>>785385
>>785389
>>785390

And this is why you should always dive in even numbers, and always stay two and two.

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>>784253
>>785488
Come down to Arkansas. It's a beaut

>>784234
None really. Worst I've been lost was trying to find a river access on a gravel road. But I have an excellent sense of direction and I can retrace my steps easily.

Makes me want to go to a state with super low population density like Alaska and just go for a month long trip. Just to try and get lost.

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>>786675
what could possibly go wrong

>>786676
>implying I wouldn't come prepared just in case I actually did get lost
lel, the only reason I trouble finding the river access was because I wanted to explore rather than use my phone to get me from A to B. Life is about the journey, not the destination.

>>786678
yeah fair enough bruv
>Life is about the journey, not the destination
well, unless you're going out for pizza

>>786684
Well even then you can enjoy the view while hoonin' to the pizza parlor.

>>785121
You survvived aweek in the Arizona desert? Damn anon.

>>786747
only because I had water

>>786100
Some where between crown king and table mesa thats why I thought some one would drive by and or a chopper would see me

>movin to Boise, wanderin around checkin out the surrounding area
>find this unmarked, but definite trail just outside of this park
>call park office and they say it's partly on US Army Corps of Engineers land and part National Forest
>cool, federal land either way so i'm good
>great foothill hiking... widlife, along a pretty creek, great weather
>end up hiking about 3-4 miles in where it dead ends into some sheer cliffs
>okay, hike over, time to turn around and head back
>look back and realize that i can't pick out how I got here
>not too worried because it's essentially in a valley and I just have to turn around and follow the contour of the land and i'll be fine
>turns out, about a mile back i ended up following a game trail because the main trail ended up being overgrown from lack of upkeep
>mountain lion country, already seen bones and a fresh kill on the trail (not a huge worry, but cool nonetheless)
>head back and pick my way through the high brush that didn't help visibility
>get back to trail and am good to go
>hike back and all in all was a good day

Boring as hell I know, but when I hit that dead end and turned around and couldn't see where I had been walking and where the trail was, that was my first real feeling of being lost. Again, it was super minor and only about 10 minutes before I just gave up on finding the trail and just powered through some thickets until I got back on track. Still though, it was interesting to feel that and another reason why no matter where I go, I let someone know where I'm headed. If I had slipped on some sheer rock and snapped an ankle or cracked my head, I'm still over 3 miles from my car with no cell service on a trail I've never seen anyone else at.

>>785441
Come to Romania, Istvan, the forests here are as underdeveloped as everything else.

>>784525

"fishing" in inverted commas like that means they were having gay sex.

I've never actually been lost, but the closest I came was as follows

>Out deer hunting
>Driving back near evening on last day
>See deer
>Jump out and start following them
>Right where I parked, hiking off the road was going uphill
>Chase deer for a long time
>Follow game trails up and down hills
>Realize it is a lost cause
>Start walking back
>Get close to truck
>Know I should be close to the road
>It is uphill to the road
>Remember going uphill going away from the road
>Fuck
>Decide to climb to the top to look for road
>Pop out on road, 30 yards in front of truck

I lost track of what altitude I was at, and didn't pay attention to the fact that hiking off the road was uphill right where I had parked, and downhill 30yds ahead of the truck. I thought I needed to be going downhill to get back, and it really fucked with me.

>>785296
10/10

Goose steps man... they'll get ya

>>786999
Quite a few people visiting Idaho and a few locals wander into the mountains for a short hike and are never seen again. It's not for pussies, nu males, city boys or easterners.

http://boisestatepublicradio.org/post/body-missing-woman-found-craters-moon

>>787484
>It's not for pussies
fair nuff
>nu males
kek
>city boys
well is this just generalizing now?
>or easterners
get fukt m8

>>787484

>or easterners

You wouldn't last a day in the swamp, kek. Go pull that potato out of your ass.

>>785920
God damn I would never have the balls to run outside at night alone fight after hearing a woman scream, even with a minigun. What made you separate?

>>787484
I mean that story is pretty pathetic and pussy shit. But I agree. Idaho is legit out. If you look above Boise, it's literally thousands of square miles of National Forest, BLM, Wilderness Areas, and National Recreation Areas. I'm gonna take it real easy the first month or so I'm there and kinda get used to things. My parents actually bought me one of these things for my birthday.

http://www.amazon.com/AG-008727-201-Explorer-Satellite-Communicator-Navigation/dp/B00I6EY01C

Reviews are solid? Idk how much I trust those things, but it's better than nothing and it'll be my first legit piece of electronic nav gear I've ever had. I'm from the southeast, so they're way far away and are interested in where I'm hiking, etc etc. Seems like a cool piece of equipment, and once I test it out I'll throw a detailed review on /out/.

>>784234
>be me
oh good, I thought you were going to be someone else for a second

>>787571
Top kek

>>785298
same, the forest at night when you're tripping is so comfy

>>784525
>the dispair was tangible.
I hope you got it all down in your journal.

>>787538
Things are done differently in the dirty south...

And by that I mean we were retarded and didn't plan

Fuck yall the most lost I've been was trying to escape a hospital

>>785190
>put all my shit down so i can move quicker
asshole puckered so hard when i read this. glad you caught yourself

>>787484
>>787555
Idaho native here, It's a pretty nioce place.

I'm in Moscow ID now, anyone know of good hiking trails and shit? I'm looking to get out with my roomate for a few weekends.

>>790962
Fraid not man, dunno much about north of Boise. Looks like there's a Saint Joe National Forest not far from you. Might be worth scopin out?

Everything else looks at least 50 miles away, but obviously dead east of you you're heading straight into millions of acres of NF land.

People in Idaho pretty cool? I still don't have a good feel for them. Coming from the South, no one really seems overly friendly, but that could just be people not doing the bullshit "everyone loves you and is super polite" facade that southerners have a tendency to do.

>>787018
Yeah, we know. Fucking millennials.

>>784253
This is actually really sad.

>>790975
Most of Idaho has a strong "us and our own" mentality. They will help you if you ask but largely just live and let live

>>786670
Where are you in AR? I'm from Hot Springs.

>>787484

From Arkansas and moved up here a month ago. I just came back from solo backpacking in the Frank Church. I couldn't get any Idaho fags to come with because "too extreme".

>>787555
Where are you from originally? I just moved up here from AR

>>791097
That's about what I figured. I've met some really nice people through AirBnB already, but I'm moving to an apartment complex and am kinda curious what the people will be like. Either way, pumped for the /out/ opportunities and lack of traffic and crime.

>>791126
Note that the Live and Let Live mentality is common in much of the more rural West (ID, MT, WY, UT outside the Wasatch Front, eastern OR/WA, NV). It's not hard to integrate into communities but you need to show that you want to do so. It also helps that all of these states have a lot of federal land for going /out/

>bought hiking gps
>never get lost again
>???

Only time I've ever been lost,
>11 with younger cousin, went innawoods before dinner behind cousin's house
>he led, I turned brain off
>40 minutes in says he's lost
>fuck
>walk in straight line
>find road, follow around block several miles
>arrive home after dark
>find out parents called a search party and the cops
>get embarrassed
>11 year old me doesn't know insult appropriate for antsy hovering worrywort family
>irritatedly eat cold dinner while they bitch and cry

Fucking fags.

>>785288

Pansy. I love going night/out/ with no flashlight. I've even gone on the new moon without a problem. Spoopiest thing that happened was I watched some loud ass 'possums that were blank white cross the trail.

>>785385
>>785389
>cave diving
Going to stop reading there and assume there was at least one survivor and not Poseidon shitposting from a dead bloke's phone.

>>786159
>what are your personal experiences with being lost
>I never get lost
What did he mean by this?

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>>785385
>>785389
>>785390

>>785385
Fuck. Screened.

>>784234
Never got lost but:

>be naturalist intern
>teaching orienteering to 5th graders
>head south on trail and walk west through forest to hit a road for bus departure
>kids bitching about bugs the whole time
>fuck up and leave checking the bearings the whole time
> veering NW the whole time
>see private property
>Idonfukedup.jpeg
>hit highway that intersects road I was supposed to hit
>keep kids calm and walk carefully down the road and report what happened to other groups
>get them back all tired from extra walking

Not terrible but I felt pretty stupid at the time, my coworkers just laughed about it though.

>>784234
>be in northern northern Vermont at one friends house for annual party. Maybe 15 people.
>another friend says "hey anon lets walk to Canada"
> sure!
>I wear flip flops and lacrosse shorts. This will be breazy
>buddy wearing tie-dye steal your face shirt.
> start walking northing
>this is not pretty vermont
>south of north
>keep walking
>"hey hey hey" from long driveway with trailer
> two dudes walk up; one 45 and just absolute hick. budwiser can, mouth full of dip
>his "son" in tail. Neck the size of his shoulders, head and jaw square as the monitor i am typing this thread in. dark raspy grunts. 4.5 teeth. Budwiser can. Dipping.
>"where are you boys from"
> "rhode island, boston"
> older guys eyes light up "well im [name forgotten] and this is my son [name forgotten] and thats my dad coming up"
>see old man in weird not quiet Polaris not quite golf cart moving up dirt driveway. Budwiser can.
>ooze pouring from his face barely holding his beer can. cart appears to be mind controlled.
>"uhhh nice dogs"
>"thanks! where you boys staying"
>give other friends family name
> oh you mean [name ommited] boy. thats the house down by _____ street"
>"uhhh yea whats your dogs name?"
>"you ever read the good book"
>”ive read a few… which book are you talking”
>”well that’s zues and that’s Apollo”
>realize only one of the three is talking—try to get son involoved.
>he can only grunt.
[cont]

>>793405
>realize that this conversation is going from simple introductions to them trying to figure out where our cars are parked
>” ok we are going to go now”
>start walking up gravel hill still going north
> as we walk we here motor behind us.
>it’s the old man.
>basically turn into Mario with ghosts
>we turn he stops. We walk he comes.
>so slowly gaining on us
>after about 20 min I stop and just stare at him
>he stops. Waits and then we let him drive up to us
>he pulls up next to us
>whispered mumbles with ooze coming out of his voice
>swear to woods spirits his voice only comes with the wind.
>more ooze.
>I have to lean into hear him.
>”go away. Those guys are bad guys. Go away. They are planning for trouble. You should go”
>bug the fuck out.
>in panic decide we should take the powerlines to the logging roads and double back around back to our friends house.
>worst idea ever.
>find old logging roads. Start trying to navigate ourself back.
>get waaaaay to deep in roads. Start hearing dirt bikes all around us.
>wtfcafe.com
[cont]

>>793406
> head deeper in away from dirt bike noises
>2 hours of wondering.
>3 hours lost. we are so fucking lost that I start leaving my cigarette butts on the trail so people can find my DNA and let my parents know I died out here.
>we are so fucking lost. 4 hours go by.
> 5 hours go by. We are still on logging roads. Absolutely no idea where we are. We find water station. It has a camera!! Start waving and yelling at camera, looking for entrance to see if we can find a radio in there
>go around side. Place is littered with bud lights cans, empty dip tins, sign saying keep out keep away is littered with bulletholes. MOTHERFUCKER.
> lets head west should hit the main road to jay peak.
>follow logging roads for another hour. at 6-7 hours.
> see a house. I swear it’s the fucking blair witch mixed with house of 1000 corpses. Weird little rock piles, windchimes and statute everywhere. The yard is dense with chachkeys. Middle of woods.
>NOPE! I pick up a rock and we go by it in the woods.
>30 min go by—find bridge. One side of bridge has hand made sign. PRIVATE PROPERTY DO NOT ENTER!!
>other side of bridge has sign. Go see what it is. SAME FUCKING SIGN.
>fuck it- this must mean we are getting closer to something.
>move quickly
>FIND PAVEMENT!!!
> KEEP MOVING KEEP MOVING
>Find railroad track bridge over water
>FUCK YES!
>come out of woods!
>literal Canadian/American border
{Cont}

>>793407
>Border guard comes out of station.
>hand on sidearm
>”where the fuck did you guys come from”
>”uhhhh x street outside of richford”
>”what? Why? That’s like 10 miles”
>”we wanted to go for a walk, see Canada”
>”well you just came out of Canada that water you walked by is part of the board”
>”oh we walked over that”
>”well welcome back to America, next time take this bridge like everyone else”
>”oh can we walk the bridge and check it out”
>”sure just come back and please when you get back go in the station and drink some water”
>No ID. no License. No nothing we just start playing on the American Canadian border crossing back and forth.
>White privilege mother fucker. Feels good.
>wrap up dicking around the border
>take the “main road” back to friends house. PHONE SERVICE!! We send email
>help! At border please send car at rt 120 and 236
>keep walking. Start to get exhausted. Start to bicker. I am going to die on the road next to a corn field
>see a car in the distance. ITS OUR FRIEND
>fall into car. Friend tells us we are fucking retarded and this is not that part of Vermont where you go for nice walks.
>get home. smoke weed drink water. lie down.
>its oger.

[spoiler] we spoke with our buddy’s dad that night… he knew the two guys we wer talking about but confused by the third because the old man died like two years ago [/spoiler]

Im never walking logging roads again.

fin

>>793405
>>793406
>>793407
>>793409

Why does /out/ have such a phobia of rednecks? The most these people are going to do is just fuck with you, because all you guys probably act like nervous kittens around them.

If any of this story is true, you could've gotten lost and possibly died just from overreacting. You need to get your /out/ mentality figured out.

>>793519
That's why I open carry anon also how fl did you get lost so easily are you the old lady that we keep hearing about