A Bic lighter is better than all the damp matches in the world. Works well even
after you fell in the creek (swamp in Mark's case, GRIN).
For what it is worth:
Graywolf's minimal walking in the mountains kit (Assumes you are not more than a
day from help--for some strange reason many such
At 11:16 PM 4/23/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Mark Cassino wrote:
LOL - I hadn't read it that closely... but that would be sorta mystical
IMO - Put these tabs on you film rolls and you won't get lost!
- MCC
Yeah well I always did like Van Morrison ;)
annsan
But those tabs went under the tongue...
Great story, Mark -
Glad you found your way back here :)
Hiking at Bryce back in the 80's, we decided to
hike into the Peekaboo trail
from the more or less flat trail that enters/exits
near the town of Tropic..
about an 8 mile round trip. IT was apparent
pretty quickly that a lot of
the trail
Ann Sanfedele wrote:
Great story, Mark -
Glad you found your way back here :)
quoting myself
Once we actually got close to the hoodoos and
such, it was easy, but the
wooded area could be confusing. So I stuck
brightly colored signal dots
that I carried to mark and number
At 08:27 PM 4/23/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Very basic survival gear include matches, water and compass. The matches
should be waterproof (easy to do - buy a box of wooden strike anywhere
matches and paint them with fingernail polish). In a pinch, the green ink in
US currency has chlorophyll in it
At 11:19 AM 4/23/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Great story, Mark -
Glad you found your way back here :)
Thanks Ann - imagine, if the cold hadn't killed me, list withdrawal surely
would of done me in!
Once we actually got close to the hoodoos and
such, it was easy, but the
wooded area could be
LOL - I hadn't read it that closely... but that would be sorta mystical
IMO - Put these tabs on you film rolls and you won't get lost!
- MCC
At 08:33 PM 4/23/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Ann Sanfedele wrote:
annsan answers herself:
Sound funny? Yeah, well,I MEANT To write that I
stuck
the signal
Mark Cassino wrote:
LOL - I hadn't read it that closely... but that would be sorta mystical
IMO - Put these tabs on you film rolls and you won't get lost!
- MCC
Yeah well I always did like Van Morrison ;)
annsan
At 08:33 PM 4/23/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Ann Sanfedele wrote:
..
decision!
Cheers,
Ryan
- Original Message -
From: Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:49 PM
Subject: Lost In the Woods
Yesterday I went out to a fairly small 325 acre nature preserve, to shoot
some scenics with wildflowers. About
Mark! Compass? 325 acres? That's not very big. (Only about 0.73 of a mile square.
Conversely it's about 0.50 of a square mile. A section, 1 mile by 1 mile, is 640
acres.)
You must be from the city!
:)
Collin
Sent via
It can be disconcerting. I carry both a compass and a flashlight in my bag,
and have been known to stuff a Columbia jacket in there as well.
The most absolutely and irrevocably lost I have ever been, though, was in
Granada, Spain. You wouldn't think so, it being all urban and everything,
but
Yeah, I know - not big at all. The area is claimed to be one of the few
patches of Michigan forest that was never logged - but the trees don;t look
all that big. But even in a small area like that, it's easy to spend a lot
of time wandering around if you don't have a compass for direction.
-
- Original Message -
From: Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:49 AM
Subject: Lost In the Woods
Yesterday I went out to a fairly small 325 acre nature preserve, to shoot
some scenics with wildflowers. About a mile into the woods
The real lesson was, he didn't panic...
He knew he was totally lost, and quite literally didn't know which way
to turn.
Instead, he kept his wits about him, and thought his way out of an
otherwise frightening situation, proceeding with a solution that would
surely get him out and home, albeit
I always carry a compass with me when I'm shooting in the woods (or the
mountains or the moors or...). Mostly it's for locating where sunset and
sunrise are going to be but I occasionally put it to navigational uses
the way you did :)
I also keep a light Gore-Tex jacket bungeed to the side of my
At 12:29 AM 4/23/2004 +1000, Ryan Lee wrote:
Wonderful account, Mark.. Glad to see you figured it out eventually- though
you should know that we were priming Jostein to be the replacement snowflake
photographer!
LOL - I guess in addition to bringing a flashlight and cell phone, I
should also
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:49:28 -0400, Mark Cassino wrote:
it toke about 2 hours before I was on a trail I knew
So _THAT'S_ what happened! :-)
TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
Mark Cassino revealed: ...snip
So, after about 15 minutes I realized I was hopelessly lostvery
entertaining adventure story snipped here/snip
Thanks heaps for sharing that with us Mark, what a great story, can't wait
to see the pics!
tan.
Maybe he didn't find his way out and this is all in his mind...
Doug Franklin wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:49:28 -0400, Mark Cassino wrote:
it toke about 2 hours before I was on a trail I knew
So _THAT'S_ what happened! :-)
TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
Keith Whaley wrote:
The real lesson was, he didn't panic...
He knew he was totally lost, and quite literally didn't know
which way to turn.
Instead, he kept his wits about him, and thought his way out
of an otherwise frightening situation, proceeding with a
solution that would surely get
I once spoke with a ranger who told me about a woman that got lost going
off the Appalachian trail. She had a cell phone and a GPS unit, so she
called the park service and told them her coordinates. This was the
first time it had happened this way, and it wasn't easy for them to
figure out where
At 01:09 AM 23/04/2004, you wrote:
The real lesson was, he didn't panic...
He knew he was totally lost,
He wasn't lost lost, he was just temporarily disoriented. Once you get
properly lost - YOU STOP and do not move (for a number of reasons)
(*)o(*)
Robert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
a topographic map of the area you're headed into.
Bill Sawyer
Detroit, MI
-Original Message-
From: Mark Cassino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Lost In the Woods
Yesterday I went out to a fairly small 325 acre nature preserve
A pocket GPS is of immense help. It shows your origin position and also
allows you to back track your route. I use mine all the time when hunting or
going into unfamiliar territory.
Regards,
Bob...
A lie gets halfway around the world before
the
That's right. He merely misplaced himself for a short time.
Regards,
Bob...
A lie gets halfway around the world before
the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Winston Churchill
From: mapson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:09 AM 23/04/2004,
At 10:25 AM 23/04/2004, you wrote:
A pocket GPS is of immense help.
GPS is for softies! Real adventurers do it the way Mark did! ;-)
(*)o(*)
Robert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I missed the start of this thread, but it is very easy to get lost in a mature
forest. Thousands of trees, all pretty much the same, little underbrush, the sky
is not visible, no individual shadows. As I said, easy to get turned around and
not have any idea which way is what.
Not the same as
I usually just as an indian. Fortunately I have never met two at a time in the
woods, so I never have had to figure out which one was lying.
--
Mark Roberts wrote:
I always carry a compass with me when I'm shooting in the woods (or the
mountains or the moors or...). Mostly it's for locating
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