Who Has Been Lost In The Woods
When i was 14 to 17 a friend and i went squirrel hunting in woods we had never been in before.
We went hunting after school and we were easing through the woods being really quite. We would walk a little while and then stay still for a while.
We went through a little patch that was wet. We did not think anything about it.
When we turned around to go to our truck there was a swamp between us and the truck. We tried going around the swamp but it started getting dark so we turned around and walked out of the woods.
The woods were about a mile and a half deep but where we came out it was about a 6 mile walk to get back to the truck.
When i got home it was about 8:30 pm and my Dad was not happy. He was worried i got hurt hunting. He knew i was going hunting and i am never late and if i am its no more than 5 or 10 minuets.
I told him what happened and he was ok. Around 1980 there was no phone to call and let my parents know what happened.
We were not lost it was just a long walk to get back to the truck.
We went hunting after school and we were easing through the woods being really quite. We would walk a little while and then stay still for a while.
We went through a little patch that was wet. We did not think anything about it.
When we turned around to go to our truck there was a swamp between us and the truck. We tried going around the swamp but it started getting dark so we turned around and walked out of the woods.
The woods were about a mile and a half deep but where we came out it was about a 6 mile walk to get back to the truck.
When i got home it was about 8:30 pm and my Dad was not happy. He was worried i got hurt hunting. He knew i was going hunting and i am never late and if i am its no more than 5 or 10 minuets.
I told him what happened and he was ok. Around 1980 there was no phone to call and let my parents know what happened.
We were not lost it was just a long walk to get back to the truck.
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Never lost just temporally disoriented.[;)]
I have walked Woods, Mountains, Desert, Plains, Pampas,Arctic tundra, Swamps and the Jungles all over this planet and navigated with a map, compass and my pace count both day and night, in rain, snow, fog you name it.
But I have to admit when Garmin came out with the eTrex it changed my world. Then when the Rino 130 came out............wow!0 -
Yes, I have been lost in the woods.
But in all fairness, the pilot missed the drop zone by one state. Before there was GPS or cell phones. Night jump.
There is lost, and there is "Well, pretty sure we are on the right planet!"
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I heard something when I was just a wee lad that has stayed with me my whole life.
(ahem).....
"Carry a Compass."0 -
Lost? Lost?
Hell, I ain't never been lost.
Been mighty confused for a month or two but never lost. [:D]
Trailing a blood trail at night can get a guy turned around.0 -
I've never been lost in the woods, but I got lost in New Jersey once.
I also got turned around twice (took wrong exit) and ended up in a part of Newark I never want to see again.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Chief Shaway
Lost? Lost?
Hell, I ain't never been lost.
Been mighty confused for a month or two but never lost. [:D]
That is my most favorite line from any movie I have ever watched and know where it was filmed.
Wish we had more movies like it.
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i have tryed many times ..sadly i have been found every april 15th[V] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by dpmule
quote:Originally posted by Chief Shaway
Lost? Lost?
Hell, I ain't never been lost.
Been mighty confused for a month or two but never lost. [:D]
That is my most favorite line from any movie I have ever watched and know where it was filmed.
Wish we had more movies like it.
Mule
Mine as well. He beat me to it.0 -
I don?t worry too much about getting lost in the woods since I figured out you can only go into the woods half way. When you get to the middle you are going out of the woods.
When I was going through a Yard Period in Bremerton, Washing back in the late 60?s/early 70?s it had been forever since I had a day off. Then I got a weekend off with no obligations of my time. At that time in Washington they had an overpopulation of Black Bears. It was open season on bears 365 days a year. You didn?t need a hunting license to hunt them; all you needed was a bear tag for $1.00, residents and nonresidents alike. I decided I was going bear hunting.
I went over to Special Services and checked out a 1903A3, bought a box of .30/06 and a bear tag. I was really looking forward to that bear hunt. I didn?t really expect to see a bear, I just wanted to get away from the chipping hammers and the people, oh God, the people.
A kid (I should say 19 year old child) from Vermont started hinting that he wanted to go with me. I guess Pickett didn?t understand he was the main reason I wanted to get away before I strangled him. To hear Pickett tell it he was the last of the Great White Hunters. When he figured out I wasn?t going to invite him he volunteered to go with me. Back then I was too nice a guy to just tell him hell no.
The deer Pickett had killed had to be in the hundreds if not more although the limit in Vermont at that time was a buck a year. I wonder if the deer population of Vermont has started to recover yet. It was sad that Davey Crockett was dead. Pickett could have taught him a lot.
The big day finally arrived and we went to some public land. I didn?t know the area so I decided we would stay close to a grown over logging road from year gone by. We were walking into the woods and Pickett saw a stick on the ground. It was bigger than a toothpick and broken. He starred at it for a couple of minutes and said ?that?s bear sign if I?ve ever seen it.? At that point I admitted to myself there was no point in even trying. I took him to a tree and told him to stay motionless and make a noise like a peanut. Every time I looked in his direction he was dancing around and pointing his rifle at everything.
An old man that lived in the woods came by and we talked with him for a while. I asked him where a likely place to see a bear was. He said if we just wanted to get a bear the dump would be the best place. He gave us directions to the dump which included crossing a river on an old bridge.
I told Pickett it was a good time to go back to the car and eat lunch. Pickett got a fearful look on his face and asked me how we were going to get back to the car. I told him just to follow me. The longer we walked the more scared he got. I was afraid he was going to have a breakdown so I asked him what he was scared of. He asked ?How we gonna get across the river?? I asked him ?What river?? He said ?Don?t you remember the old man said we had to cross a river?? I asked him ?Do you remember crossing a river to get here?? He said ?but but but? I told him I thought if we followed the same road in the other direction we would wind up back at the car. He looked confused but agreed to follow my plan.
When we finished lunch I told him to pack up his gear, we were going home. He wanted to do some ?more hunting? but I told him we were going home. When we got back to the house my wife came out wanting to see the bear. I told her we didn?t get one. She said she didn?t expect us back until after dark so when she saw us in early afternoon she knew for sure we had a bear.
She fixed us another lunch and after we finished I told Pickett I?d take him back to the ship. He didn?t want to leave yet but I told him ?it?s time for you to go back to the ship?.
When I got home the wife wanted to know why we came home early and why I was in a hurry to hustle him off. ?He seemed to be such a nice boy?. I told her why.0 -
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I never was, but my friend Jerry Reed once spent three days lost on a cloverleaf. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by iceracerx
I've never been lost in the woods, but I got lost in New Jersey once.
I also got turned around twice (took wrong exit) and ended up in a part of Newark I never want to see again.
Back in the 1970s my boss had to go to a school in Newark. One day after school he was walking to his car and one of the local gangs tried to catch him. He made it by the skin of his teeth but he outran them. As soon as he got in his car he went directly to the police station. He went in and told they guy at the desk what happened. The police action was the cop looked him in the eye and said ?you should know better than to be in Newark after 5:00 pm?.0 -
I wasn't lost but everyone thought I was, I was just trying to figure out how to get to where I was going without having to back track. 0 -
Twice. Once in the pines and once in upstate PA. Both time, I had to spend the night in the woods. I was 14 the first time and 19 the second time. My father always had me in the woods and taught me how to survive alone for a few days. He had matches vacuumed sealed and extra stuff in my backpack for me when I was younger. The second time I got lost, was in a snowstorm. It was a complete whiteout and both my compasses, showed north in a different direction. I stayed put until my family found me the next day. I only panicked the second time in the snow. The first time, when I was 14, it didn't bother me. I know one thing for sure, I don't want to get that lost again.[;)] 0 -
I agree Oak, (brown liquor aside) one can very easy to get discombobulated in the Pa. woods you referenced. It's, as you well know, virtual wilderness way back there in those mountains. (LOL, never been there myself.) The storms blow in so fast and heavy ya can get yourself in trouble real fast. Better to have the right gear with you, hunker down, get oriented, then figure a plan. There are times ya may have to overnight rather than run your atv or snow machine off a cliff or fall into a ravine where it could be spring before anyone finds ya. 0 -
Still am, send beer and women. 0 -
quote:I heard something when I was just a wee lad that has stayed with me my whole life.
(ahem).....
"Carry a Compass."
Started my deer hunting career in the forest and swap area's of northern MN. No roads every mile so if you didn't know where you were you could walk deep into Canada without cutting across any civilization.
I always had a compass0 -
Never lost in the woods but did get stuck on an escalator for a couple hours when it stopped.[:D] 0 -
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quote:Originally posted by Idahobound
quote:Originally posted by dpmule
quote:Originally posted by Chief Shaway
Lost? Lost?
Hell, I ain't never been lost.
Been mighty confused for a month or two but never lost. [:D]
That is my most favorite line from any movie I have ever watched and know where it was filmed.
Wish we had more movies like it.
Mule
Mine as well. He beat me to it.0 -
my closest story
I grew up in a small town never really ventured away
I got my drivers licenses and a couple buddy's decided we would make a run to Dayton Oh ( I know but it was a big town to us )
we went to the "not so good side of town " we pulled over to talk to a
suspected hooker ( just to confirm our guessing ) we were right, but started laughing to hard as she was making her sales pitch about taking care of all of us in the car..and pulled away .
ended up lost drove around for some time. I seen a small restaurant in a rough looking area . I left my buddies in the car ( scared and would not leave it anyway ) I walked in I was the only white guy within miles was my guess
I walked in with my best normal act like I was part of the community, ask about directions several all nice offered me advice and gave me directions to the interstate
honest that was a turning point on my feeling on race issues0 -
I co-manage 10 sections of an East Texas Piney woods
deer lease... 6400+ acres of thick woods and old
loggin trails and three camps.
On occasion we will get a new hunter that gets
"turned around" and we have to fetch him back to camp.
Near always the afternoon/evening hunt.
Now days with smart phones, GPS and such there
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Went hunting with a friend in SC back when we were in high school. At the time SC had over a million acres of public land and many of the gamelands were quite large. (ok, east coast large) I wanted to find some new area to hunt and we found a promising area in the Sumter National Forest.
It was an heavily overcast day that was impossible to determine which direction the sun was. I placed Jerry on a hill over a creek where he could see his car. Jerry got lost every time he ever walked across a ditch going into the woods. I told him when it got close to dark to point at his car and start walking that way until his finger touched the car. (This would be the first time I had ever not had to find a lost Jerry after dark)
Me, I was scouting this land out. The farther in I walked the better the sign was so I kept walking and walking. Finally, in the midst of a billion or so pine trees, I came onto a small knoll of nothing but oaks and deer droppings everywhere. I figured I was a little over a mile in.
As dusk quickly fell upon me the deer fed into the oaks from every direction. Does, fawns, and small bucks. I knew there were some better bucks in the are from the size of the rubs and tracks I had found, and I didn't want to bust the deer out, so I waited until I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. I got my flashlight out and covered the beam except for just the smallest sliver as I inched back into the pines.
Then bam, total darkness. I did what everybody did back in the seventies, I tapped it against my hand, I shook it, I turned it off and back on. I took the batteries out and put them back in, nothing.
I wasn't worried, I never got lost. Never!
I put my gun on my shoulder, stretched an arm out in front of me and started shuffling in the direction of the car, arm moving back and forth to find what was in front of me. I shuffled and shuffled and shuffled and shuffled.
I knew I was moving really slowly, but though I should have gotten to the last little steam I had crossed at least 15 minutes ago. Still certain I was going the right way, I continued stumbling along. Another half hour of moving along and I knew the creek would have been long behind me.
Then suddenly I was in free fall. About a six foot drop into a creek, a creek about waist deep. The creek I was looking for was ankle deep. It was getting into the twenties that night. Time for the universal "I'm lost" three shots in the air. Now, remember it had been pitch dark for well over an hour. Bam! Bam! Bam!
I wait for the single reply shot...and wait...and wait...and wait. Nothing. I know I have to keep moving now that I'm soaked and getting cold so...shuffle, shuffle, shuffle for about another hour. Surely Jerry is starting to get worried. Bam! Bam! Bam! And I wait, and wait and wait. Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle....
Two shells left, four hours since total darkness....Bam! Wait, wait, wait. Yell out as load as I can, nothing. Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle. Yell. Wait, wait, wait. Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle. Yell. Wait, wait, wait. Yell again. Wait, wait.....hear someone yell back! Very faintly.
Orient about 30 degrees to my left and shuffle, shuffle, shuffle. Yell. Wait, wait, wait. Nothing. Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle. Yell. Hear yell back. Continue for another hour to get out. Cuss Jerry up one side and down the other.
Did you not hear me shoot three times up in the air.
Jerry: I thought you shot a deer!
Me: OVER A FRICKIN' HOUR AFTER DARK?
Jerry: Yeah, I thought that was odd.
Me: WHAT ABOUT THE SECOND THREE SHOTS????
Jerry: I thought you were tracking and jumped it up.
I never hunted with Jerry again.0 -
While driving with a friend, he said that he thought we were lost. I told him, "It's OK, I know where we are, I was lost here once before." 0 -
I did 2 years at,'lost in the woods',, 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Tflogger
Still am, send beer and women.
They'll be there shortly, I'm sending Feinstein and Hillary Clinton, and I'll have them bring the 30-pack of beer that I've had sitting in my garage for 3 years[:0][:0][B)][B)][:D][:D]0 -
Got lost in Qrlando twice, first time I ended up in a barrio, and the second time got on the wrong side of the Disney entrance, (needed to turn right just past the gates) Hate that town!
Never been lost on the woods, more than a half mile anyway. (due to dropping off the wrong side of the mountain) always had a good sense of E/W.
It helps to take a look behind you ever once in a while... things look different on the way back.0 -
Never been lost in woods, always had a good sense of direction...
BUT once, I went frogging with my Dad in the swamp South of Abbeville, La, at night, no moon...10 minutes in to the swamp and there was no way you could tell which direction was which. Luckily we were the guests of three fellas that was raised in the swamp.
No moon in the woods is one thing...no moon in the swamp is a whole different story. You can't see your hand in front of your face...everyone carried spare batteries.
Biggest frogs I have ever seen...We got 17 frogs and after cleaning them they collectively weighed just under 34 pounds...some mighty fine table fare.0 -
an old woodsman tip said that your stride with the leg that is the same side as your dominant eye is a touch longer than the non dominate side leg. therefore, when walking aimlessly without references to guide you, eventually you walk in a circle...it happened to me 1st time i deer hunted Missouri hills and no knowledge of the terrain. heavy overcast day, hills and hollers all day deer hunting. ended up on the logging road we entered the woods, 40 yards from where i started from. [my candy wrapper was where i dropped it] 0 -
Turned Around.... Never Lost!!!
Knew what state I was in, Knew what County.0 -
quote:Originally posted by discusdad
an old woodsman tip said that your stride with the leg that is the same side as your dominant eye is a touch longer than the non dominate side leg. therefore, when walking aimlessly without references to guide you, eventually you walk in a circle...it happened to me 1st time i deer hunted Missouri hills and no knowledge of the terrain. heavy overcast day, hills and hollers all day deer hunting. ended up on the logging road we entered the woods, 40 yards from where i started from. [my candy wrapper was where i dropped it]
Best be careful. There are people standing by with a rope, ready to string you up for dropping a candy wrapper.0
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