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<blockquote data-quote="ofbandg" data-source="post: 1673708" data-attributes="member: 91402"><p>I have friends who tell me they don't get lost where we live in the mountains because they know all the local peaks by heart and can orient themselves to them. When I hear that I tell them about the time, many years ago, I was solo backpacking for elk not far from my home and I left camp to head down into a canyon after I heard a big bull bugling. It was a sunny day in late September but halfway down a quickly moving dense fog moved in and you could barely see ten yards in any direction. I turned around and headed back up to camp because I didn't have all my emergency gear with me but the moving fog was so disorienting whenever I found myself going a few steps downhill I didn't know if I had completely turned around or if I was just on a dip in the hillside on the way up. If I didn't have my compass with me it would have been a panic. As it was I missed the camp and had to make a 50-50 guess on which direction to circle back. Luckily, I guessed right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ofbandg, post: 1673708, member: 91402"] I have friends who tell me they don't get lost where we live in the mountains because they know all the local peaks by heart and can orient themselves to them. When I hear that I tell them about the time, many years ago, I was solo backpacking for elk not far from my home and I left camp to head down into a canyon after I heard a big bull bugling. It was a sunny day in late September but halfway down a quickly moving dense fog moved in and you could barely see ten yards in any direction. I turned around and headed back up to camp because I didn't have all my emergency gear with me but the moving fog was so disorienting whenever I found myself going a few steps downhill I didn't know if I had completely turned around or if I was just on a dip in the hillside on the way up. If I didn't have my compass with me it would have been a panic. As it was I missed the camp and had to make a 50-50 guess on which direction to circle back. Luckily, I guessed right. [/QUOTE]
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