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    Post Ten Curious Cases of Getting Lost in the Wilderness

    People get lost all the time. Usually, these bouts of disorientation end happily enough. A hiker backtracks to find a missed trail marker, or a driver rolls down a window to ask a pedestrian for directions to a certain street or landmark. However, every so often, people get utterly lost, so lost that they scramble their brains along with their bearings. I call this extreme version of getting lost “nature shock,” the title of my new book, and eight years ago, I set out to find the terribly lost in American history.

    Over five centuries, North Americans traveled from relational space, where people navigated by their relationships to one another, to individual space, where people understood their position on Earth by the coordinates provided by mass media, transportation grids and commercial networks. By meeting distressed individuals teetering on the edges of the worlds they knew, I learned how people constructed their worlds and how these constructions changed over time. And in so doing, I stumbled upon the twisted route Americans followed to reach a moment when blue dots pulsating on miniature screens tell them where to go.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...ess-180975495/
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    Being lost in the outdoors can make you feel helpless. It's very unpleasant.

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    "Hmmm... been fearsome confused for a month or two, but I ain't never been lost!"

    - 'Henry Frapp' (Brian Keith) in The Mountain Men
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    Its very easy to get lost in the forest where every tree looks like every other tree. I went into the woods outside of my house, went down a ravine and then completely lost my sense of direction. I couldn't see the house any longer and couldn't tell in what direction it laid. I wasn't 100 yards from the house at that point. I wandered around for half an hour going in the direction I thought I should and ended up a half mile from the house on the other side of it! After that I wouldn't step foot in the woods without a compass.

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    30 years ago, I was taking an orienteering course, the leaders put us in a van blindfolded and dropped us off at intervals. We were then to find our way out of the area and back to the van. I got a bit disoriented, and wandered onto a dirt road, next thing I know, a cop pulls up in front of me and begins to interrogate me...apparently a murder suspect was said to be hiding in the area. Luckily I had my ID, plus some paperwork (an exfil map) from the program...I found out later that the suspect ended up being being found hanging from a tree not 200 yards from where I was walking, that was interesting to say the least...

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    Quote Originally Posted by jigglepete View Post
    30 years ago, I was taking an orienteering course, the leaders put us in a van blindfolded and dropped us off at intervals. We were then to find our way out of the area and back to the van. I got a bit disoriented, and wandered onto a dirt road, next thing I know, a cop pulls up in front of me and begins to interrogate me...apparently a murder suspect was said to be hiding in the area. Luckily I had my ID, plus some paperwork (an exfil map) from the program...I found out later that the suspect ended up being being found hanging from a tree not 200 yards from where I was walking, that was interesting to say the least...
    Was his name Tom Dooley? Was it a white oak tree?

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    Was his name Tom Dooley? Was it a white oak tree?
    Had to google it, well played sir, well played...

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    Was his name Tom Dooley? Was it a white oak tree?
    I must be old. The song came immediately to mind.
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