Ever Been Lost ?
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Lost once while sailing. Thick fog came in fast before we had a chart fix. Had a compass and general idea where we were (no GPS back then)
Kept along dead slow and heard some voices off in the distance. Thought we'd head in that direction to see if they had a fix. Until we heard car doors close an an engine start...
Kept along dead slow and heard some voices off in the distance. Thought we'd head in that direction to see if they had a fix. Until we heard car doors close an an engine start...
I was 8 years old, year was 1960, at our cabin up in Lachute PQ ( i still owe the place ) i went on the wood side to try to find a piece of wood to scuplt with my brand new knife. Suddenlly i dont know where i am it's around 5 PM, nice sunny day.
I decided to go on top of a mountain to try to see the lake, no success, sun was coming down and i was very scare but not panicky, around 7.30, i was tired and nervous.
On top of a little plateau there was plenty of moss over a rocky bottom, i was able to use the moss like a cover to protect myself from mosquitos and the cold.
In the morning or shall i say at daylight, i started to walk downhill, i was completly lost...
Far… far away i could hear the sound of a chainsaw, i walked toward the sound, couple of hours of walking maybe more, then i arrived on a road, i sitted down beside the road saying to myself a car maybe coming. 10 minutes later a PP car stopped and the policeman asked me you are Jean Pierre, we were looking for you, would you like an ice cream cone, i said yes and i ate 2.
Hey i was 8 years old and i did good.
My mother told me that i had so many mosquitos bites, i looked like a grapefruit.
It was a bad experience a little, it was a tremendous good experience.
Since then i always enter the wood with a compass, that a lesson learned and served me all my life.
I decided to go on top of a mountain to try to see the lake, no success, sun was coming down and i was very scare but not panicky, around 7.30, i was tired and nervous.
On top of a little plateau there was plenty of moss over a rocky bottom, i was able to use the moss like a cover to protect myself from mosquitos and the cold.
In the morning or shall i say at daylight, i started to walk downhill, i was completly lost...
Far… far away i could hear the sound of a chainsaw, i walked toward the sound, couple of hours of walking maybe more, then i arrived on a road, i sitted down beside the road saying to myself a car maybe coming. 10 minutes later a PP car stopped and the policeman asked me you are Jean Pierre, we were looking for you, would you like an ice cream cone, i said yes and i ate 2.
Hey i was 8 years old and i did good.
My mother told me that i had so many mosquitos bites, i looked like a grapefruit.
It was a bad experience a little, it was a tremendous good experience.
Since then i always enter the wood with a compass, that a lesson learned and served me all my life.
Fruck yeah.
Numerous times.
Wunce up in the Jaimieson Crick area.
Spent the night too.
Told me buddies they wuzz gown thuh wrong way.
Nope nope nope nope.
Made a fire, taws'd'in terned and gartzs up early.
Pewt owt el fwaygo and found the box canyon agin.
Then I knew pretty much ware we went wrong.
Found the main road and man, we wuzz some ways from the truck.
Lawger happen'd tuh come by and we jumped in the box.
Saved us bunchoh more steps.
Nudder time up in the Germansen area.
Dun git me arse tern'd abewt.
Then the eyedeer came the river ran west-east.
So head northith Looky.
There twere others, but merely missteps.
One day I ventured to the bigg'un city and had two GPSiss wid moi in the rig.
Headed on the approach of the Northern Ears Bridge and one GPS said turn left, tuther
tern right.
Both didn't know the bridge was there.
Funny chit.
Numerous times.
Wunce up in the Jaimieson Crick area.
Spent the night too.
Told me buddies they wuzz gown thuh wrong way.
Nope nope nope nope.
Made a fire, taws'd'in terned and gartzs up early.
Pewt owt el fwaygo and found the box canyon agin.
Then I knew pretty much ware we went wrong.
Found the main road and man, we wuzz some ways from the truck.
Lawger happen'd tuh come by and we jumped in the box.
Saved us bunchoh more steps.
Nudder time up in the Germansen area.
Dun git me arse tern'd abewt.
Then the eyedeer came the river ran west-east.
So head northith Looky.
There twere others, but merely missteps.
One day I ventured to the bigg'un city and had two GPSiss wid moi in the rig.
Headed on the approach of the Northern Ears Bridge and one GPS said turn left, tuther
tern right.
Both didn't know the bridge was there.
Funny chit.
I've been lost driving a few times. The one I distinctly remember was while on vacation going through Massachusetts my wife was reading the map (my first mistake). Going about 80 mph on an interstate highway my realizes we should've tuned at the last exit 2 miles behind us. Needless to say we arrived at our next destination 6 hours later than planned. On this same trip we ran into a bad accident miles down the road ,then you go from 6 lanes of traffic (80 mph) down to one very abruptly. Taking the emergency exit as directed by the police we were so lost we missed one of the sight seeing destinations completely. That one was ok as we got to see more of the state than intended.
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first time I was lost it was a Saturday when a couple of buddies had decided to hike up a mountain and I said sure I'll tag along. Well around 2:00 they were all confused and wondering where the hell the road was..... turned out they didn't really have a plan or know where they were going, but we had a map and a compass so a little sit down and look around at the map and the surrounding features to get an idea where we were and then a few compass shots and a resection to pin us down and low and behold there we were. We just needed to follow a creek bed back down to the road and everything was alright. fricken monkeys
shot a deer and ended up following it a long way before I was able to kill it, that was a long walk without a compass, but not really lost and I ended up coming out of the bush about 200m from where I parked the quad. I have always been careful when following animals into the woods to make sure that I knew where I was.
then there was the time my wife had the map and we were in Glasgow..... oops, but we know which direction we should have been going so stay on the bigger roads and you'll find you way back to the Motorway. Worked out fine. A few years later we did a similar trip, but we had a little GPS by that time, made life so much more enjoyable, ever try driving a standard shift right hand drive vehicle on the left side of the road....
GPS and now google earth on your phone have made things so much easier, but I still have a compass and have a good idea where I am and which direction I was heading in so I can find my way out.
first time I was lost it was a Saturday when a couple of buddies had decided to hike up a mountain and I said sure I'll tag along. Well around 2:00 they were all confused and wondering where the hell the road was..... turned out they didn't really have a plan or know where they were going, but we had a map and a compass so a little sit down and look around at the map and the surrounding features to get an idea where we were and then a few compass shots and a resection to pin us down and low and behold there we were. We just needed to follow a creek bed back down to the road and everything was alright. fricken monkeys
shot a deer and ended up following it a long way before I was able to kill it, that was a long walk without a compass, but not really lost and I ended up coming out of the bush about 200m from where I parked the quad. I have always been careful when following animals into the woods to make sure that I knew where I was.
then there was the time my wife had the map and we were in Glasgow..... oops, but we know which direction we should have been going so stay on the bigger roads and you'll find you way back to the Motorway. Worked out fine. A few years later we did a similar trip, but we had a little GPS by that time, made life so much more enjoyable, ever try driving a standard shift right hand drive vehicle on the left side of the road....
GPS and now google earth on your phone have made things so much easier, but I still have a compass and have a good idea where I am and which direction I was heading in so I can find my way out.
If we are also including driving lost:
So in early 90's a much younger me was driving with GF from ottawa to vermont to go skiing.
Hand written directions with no distances said take Hwy 11 but didn't say what direction
So when i got to 11 it said North and South
I figured I am in Canada so obviously i want South. I was wrong..
When i got around Utica i realized that this wasn't right. I bought a map at a gas station and ended up driving through Albany then up to Burlington.
It was an 11hr drive that should have taken 3hr.
The GF was great the whole time. Should a married her LOL!!!
So in early 90's a much younger me was driving with GF from ottawa to vermont to go skiing.
Hand written directions with no distances said take Hwy 11 but didn't say what direction
So when i got to 11 it said North and South
I figured I am in Canada so obviously i want South. I was wrong..
When i got around Utica i realized that this wasn't right. I bought a map at a gas station and ended up driving through Albany then up to Burlington.
It was an 11hr drive that should have taken 3hr.
The GF was great the whole time. Should a married her LOL!!!
In the swamps NW of Atlin. I was young and invincible so I thought, compass was optional. Valleys in the Okanagan or Kootneys are straightforward in their lie but that damn flatass bog country certainly taught me a lesson. I'll remember this weird spruce, or this opening to a swamp I thought, until you don't even realize you're veering off on a 45 degree angle from where you think you're going in the endless patchwork of swamps........ One cold night with a smouldering fire and a few gunshots and all was good. learned a lot at 20yrs old, how not to be a cocky dumbass. Dropped a nice bull and a caribou after so all ended well.
2012 we were tasked to pick up personal at the main NATO camp in Kabul, Afghanistan.
No radios or GPS units as we were only in theatre for 1 week.
Rolling in up armoured SUV's driving though Kabul city during the evening turned into a nightmare.
Every side street look the same, dead end streets then another side street. Districts turned into clusters of garbage littering the area.
Bumper to bumper traffic, motorcycles, donkey carts and everyone gawking at you with a cell phone in hand...
After 4 hours driving, "this way and that way" somehow we hit the main highway and made it back to camp.
A 45 min drive to pick up the per's and 4 hours to drive back......
Good times
No radios or GPS units as we were only in theatre for 1 week.
Rolling in up armoured SUV's driving though Kabul city during the evening turned into a nightmare.
Every side street look the same, dead end streets then another side street. Districts turned into clusters of garbage littering the area.
Bumper to bumper traffic, motorcycles, donkey carts and everyone gawking at you with a cell phone in hand...
After 4 hours driving, "this way and that way" somehow we hit the main highway and made it back to camp.
A 45 min drive to pick up the per's and 4 hours to drive back......
Good times
There is an elusive species of birds in Canada know as the wheredafugawwee.
You can hear their unique call for which they are named, in the areas close to groups of people who are only temporarily turned around............
You can hear their unique call for which they are named, in the areas close to groups of people who are only temporarily turned around............
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When I worked as a line cutter it was short shots on the bearing. Sometimes 15 meters. Easy to drift especially when cutting sideslope in slide alder. ####ing hated that terrain. Constantly cutting up hill to maintain a straight line on a 45 degree slope
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