Lost, here's a tip

susie

Grasshopper

Ohh yes, the famed possum. Our county animal and have the Possum Fest every spring. Another tip, if it's raining the possum will get to the road faster than the chicken can cross it.

mike55

Opossum will also help track a wounded deer(blood trail). I have followed a few possums to a blood trail that I had lost.

Chief Shaway

Or just sit down, pull out a deck of cards and start playing solitaire.

Someone will be along shortly to tell you to put the black 10 on the red jack. 😀

Mr. Perfect

Imagine being a person that gets lost.

asphalt cowboy

I've never been lost, though I have been many a place I've never been before.

hillbille

I hunt with a fellow who gets lost almost every year, he has hunted with us for close to 40 years in the same hunting area. when we deer hunt we divide up into drivers and standers he was driving one year and we use radios, and was driving a hollow downhill towards some railroad tracks, he got turned around and just kept saying I'm almost there, he kept saying how many dead deer were laying all over the hollow, we were afraid he had crossed off our property and onto a neighbors. long story short he was going in circles past the same dead doe 4 times, another fellow who was sitting in a tree stand in next hollow over watched him walk below him 3 times on the 4th he finally yelled at him and told him to go straight up the hill to where he started,we found this out at the cabin as he stopped on his way home that evening to see if he ever got out of the hollow, a 45 minute hunt/drive turned into a 3 hour ordeal, we even yelled at him on the radio to shoot, but he didin't want to waste a bullet, he has never lived this one down

jesnlsn

We walked into a canyon west of hell’s canyon in the imnaha area of Oregon chasing a bull about ten 12 years ago . I had a gps point set at the truck . My buddy has hunted there all his life and never seems to get lost . Well the bull got away and when we stepped out of the canyon onto a ridge the truck wasn’t there . I turned on the old gps and when it told us which way to the truck my buddy didnt believe it . We would have been in a real mess that day wo the gps . All we could ever figure is we must have turned into a branch canyon when we were coming back out and followed it far enough we were lost . That was back in the day when we would follow one down into a hole too deep to drag him out of !!!

jimdeere

Susie, they misspelled “possum”.

Nanuq907

I used to work with CATCO on the arctic slope exploring for oil and building ice roads. One night Joe (a Yup'iq native from Point Hope) asked "do you want to see the new drilling site?"

Of course I said yes, those Rollagons were amazing to travel in. So we headed out onto the sea ice. It was pitch black, there were no moon or stars, no terrain, no landmarks, no tracks, and we had no compass. We drove for maybe 30 minutes and then some reflectors loomed up in the darkness. It was Jones Island, and we drove all around it looking at the reflective stakes and stuff. Then it was time to head back and Joe made a big arcing turn on the sea ice and headed back in the general direction we'd come from. I thought "oh man, we're really in trouble here" and thought of ways to establish direction and bearing, then out of the darkness loomed up my pickup truck sitting there on the ice road. I was astounded, he drove right exactly to it. "How did you DO that?!!!" I asked him, and with his thick Yup'iq accent he replied, all embarrassed, "I don't know...."

I have no idea how he did that. There were no tracks, no markings, no compass, no GPS, nothing. He was just able to drive from the ice road to the new site and back. It was effortless to him, and absolutely life threatening to everyone else.

jimdeere

Moss only grows on the north side...

But do you know why?

Toolman286

Less sunlight & is damper?