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by **Fred** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:30 pm

I discovered yesterday that if you want to prolongue your life expectancy you probably shouldn't:

venture off into the woods alone at 8:30pm at night in search of a cliff on a rainy day when no one knows where you are, you have no compas, there are no trails, you are wearing the wrong shoes, no rain jacket, no water, no food, no headlamp

There was one bonus to my little adventure last night aside from not dying out in the middle of the woods while cuddling a cold log. I figured out a little something about navigating in the woods.

1. It doesn't take long to get off track and you are never headed in the direction you think you are.
2. you are almost guaranteed to do a 180 if you aim in the so-called right direction.
3. so if you want to go to point B don't aim for point B. Try to aim back at your point of origin point A and you are bound to do a 180 away from your point of entry and actualy accidentaly land on your destination point B
4. when you are lost in the woods at night you can run like a deer in the woods to find an exit. Just follow running water. You are bound to reach the ocean eventually.

Fred
(forgot my trail of bread crumbs)

by **zig** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:44 pm

Un mot pour toi mon homme: GPS!
C'est presque de la magie!

by **dcentral** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:46 pm

Ha, that sucks dude. Atleast you made it out safe.

If you did get lost you'd have a lot of people coming out to look for you right away based on your urgencey rating. You'd just have to hope you parked your car somewhere people might come across it.

Night naviagtion is tough at the best of times.

by **mathieu** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:27 pm

Does said wrong shoes involve flip-flops??

by **Fred** » Tue May 31, 2005 7:51 am

mathieu wrote:Does said wrong shoes involve flip-flops??

ahahaha

No this time I was wearing sneakers.

I'm a little scared of wearing those flip flops out. As you know the soles are paper thin on those things. The last time I was out a twig spiked up through the bottom and almost drove itself through my foot. I was super pissed. Now there is a hole in the bottom and they aren't waterproof anymore.

by **Richard Eh!** » Tue May 31, 2005 2:53 pm

use "duck" tape! hehe

by **Fred** » Tue May 31, 2005 4:30 pm

sweet!

that will probably give me another two years out of them. thx man!

by **Nate** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:47 am

hahaha That reminds me of when me and Ben camped in prospect without a tent and it was raining. My sleeping bag at the time was rated to +20 and it was about -3 outside. Good times.... ops! almost forgot. Food was a jar of peanuts and a soggy loaf of bread!
Nate

by **Ropeguy** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:32 pm

Maybe next time you will consider thinking about what your doing BEFORE you actually do it.Just pretend your at work Freddy.......Rather than just taking 1/2 a dozen bulb tee's setting them accross a road,laying out a few deck slabs and then topping off with some nice smooth pavement, you would put alot more thought into your little bridge and maybe even crunch a few numbers and make a nice drawing.Next time you leave your house for an adventure apply the "use your brain principle"and I'm sure all will go according to plan!!!

by **Fred** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:40 am

well this is true but... there was a plan in this case. Unfortunatly the plan backfired. Sometimes you have a plan when you design things but as you know it's also possible to lose control of that plan and get way over your head. hehehe :wink:

by **lukelovesclimbin** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:00 pm

fred isn't it possible to get way over your head in anything?
Climb on
Luke

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