Sweet! Fantastic adventure! Way to persevere and enjoy what came your way. It can be hard to figure out what the lesson is in such cases, short of always keep your head and use common sense and know as much as possible about navigation without technology, because all map technology shows what was, not necessarily what IS, even in the digital age.
Back in the pre-digital days, my wife's an my first backpacking trip was in the San Juan mountains of southern Colorado. We planned to travel from Ouray to Silverton, then hitchhike back to our car. Great plan on paper, but we didn't see the maps we were using in 1990 were last updated by the (until then) trusty USGS in 1948. Jeeping took over and the roads all ran perpendicular to our route. Hikers stopped using the trails were planned on. Loads of misadventure involving utter exposure at 13,500 tundra with impressive hail thunderheads, cliffs and smashed backpacks. I got to teach my wife how to navigate via triangulation with map and compass, only to be proven wrong when the lake we thought we were getting to wasn't there (turns out it was mined under, accidentally drained, so we were where we thought, but it had moved. Weird twists of adventure!). WE ended up hiking out a jeep trail, hitching a ride to our car, and spending the night in Silverton, where the world's largest margaritas soothed our adventure wounds (and they fortunately did not check our ID). Trips where everything goes right are amazing jewels to cherish, but the memories that linger are the triumphs of misadventure and adapt and overcome. Especially when they end in the world's largest margarita with one's beloved bride. Sardonic grin. With abandon, Patrick On Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 7:44:20 PM UTC-6, drew wrote: > > I went out after work last night to meet some friends at Musch camp in > Topanga CA, which is only about 18 miles from where i work. about 14 of > those 18 are on dirt roads and trails up in the santa monica mountains. > Early on, a guy from Road Bike Action Magazine stopped and asked if he > could take my picture with my bike. Im not sure there are lots of people > riding non suspended bikes up there and carrying a bunch of stuff. a few > other people knew what a Rivendell was though, so that was cool. The ride > in was really nice, but at the end of it, it turned into steep, descending > singletrack with big rocks and steps. So i hiked it in, but thought that i > should try to find another way back when i left, so i wouldnt have to carry > the bike up that. My friends bailed, so i just stayed the one night. I > looked at google maps for a new way back and their recommended route looked > ok on paper. In actuality, it involved sneaking through someone's backyard > to get to the trail, the trail turning out to be a completely overgrown > horse trail with a grade that i could barely walk up, being chased by dogs > while pushing the bike through what you see in the last photo, and > introducing me to the effects of poison oak for the first time. Google maps > lesson learned. The hunqapillar didnt flinch. > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3a4cvvtavQ4/WNcXWrxjlTI/AAAAAAAAA40/VtLFKZv2NNQqeISeGaWLz-vPmc-iTu0dgCLcB/s1600/IMG_0643.JPG> > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1sy_YnMF1pQ/WNcXQBAWL0I/AAAAAAAAA4w/yC8VWixcb3Im7CDUfswja22ar8oMS3LxQCLcB/s1600/IMG_0644.JPG> > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-etIb1aftOB0/WNcXG_qyezI/AAAAAAAAA4s/ebZgQJyHt5UQOD5Hg_vkJnXUmplXniH2gCLcB/s1600/IMG_0648.JPG> > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dWH4nFFz6QI/WNcXAXKZ7MI/AAAAAAAAA4o/ACNSk1cuefo79ooVAbBnEoCpwAMeYLuMgCLcB/s1600/IMG_0645.JPG> > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JrfNP9Lzk7c/WNca00ulBiI/AAAAAAAAA48/unqukMe7xXkXRzMwtlJJpL5LGzn4VEISgCLcB/s1600/51215789040__0AD0160B-D5D4-48D6-A781-68D09AB17F62.JPG> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
