Me and my friend were going to go to the spillway one day and get all dirty and do some fun riding. I made a wrong decision and decided to go hiking with a buddy. After some traffic we got to the trails late and we decided to do a small loop. We hit a riverbed and took it up to the next part of the trail where we, very stupidly, took a right instead of a left because we saw the trail blazings. At one trail marker we saw we where about 1hr out and that was just enough time to get out before dark, so we trucked on our merry way oblivious to the fact we where going the wrong way till we hit the next trail marker. Twice as far in and the sun almost go, we tried a little but unable to follow the primitive trail in the fading light we decided to stay put. Totally unprepared for spending a cold night out in the forest, we made do. Luckily we had a knife and a flashlight so we clear cut an area of bamboo and made a bed for insulation from the rocks and and cut enough to pile on top of us. As we laid down to sleep and the temperature plummeting a pack of wild dogs not to far off woke up with alot of howling and barking. My friend said he saw a deer stand down the side of a near by hill and I sayd we should bring our bamboo and go sleep up there. We shivered the whole night and barely slept as it hit 29F right before sun up. We grabbed our food from the tree we hung it in and proceed on our a way out, checking our original campsite and the amount of dog prints there, I am so glad we found that deer stand. I spent the day I was supposed to go dirt riding thawing in my bed.

 

Dang! See that's why I don't hike anywhere......yea that's why. And they say being lazy will get you nowhere in life. Uhhhhh it gets you not lost. hehehe If I'm gonna get lost, its gonna be on my KLX with extra gas and a GPS Glad you guys made it out ok.

 

GPS!
Glad you made it through. Hindsight's a wonderful thing!

 

GPS and a lighter!