I went on a hike last week in a area I did not know well,I had a odd feeling about it to begin with,but I went anyway,first I traveled past my turn,had to stop,ask turn around,found the road and what I thought was the trail.I started down the trail running next to a beautiful river,got down the trail about a half mile and it disappeared,so I turned back,trying to figure where it went to..No luck back to the car,decided I would check up the road.Found another parking area,,checked out the signs and the trail was marked out on there.I searched around for about 20 min. and took a couple trails here and there,,not to far.Another dead end.Back to the sign board and the book I had.This trail was a loop trail. I could not find the short trail up to a very nice pond,so I ended up taking the longer trail,which turned out to be much longer.I keep going and going,I thought I would never reach the pond.In the mean time I was beating my self senseless tryi ng to kill a few horseflies that had it in for me.I went to get a drink and the elastic strap that held it in broke,,brand new carrier,then I went to adjust it,and the seem split open,I finally reached a beautiful view point went to get my camera out and the slide was open the whole time,,so the batteries where dead..I was really humping along on the trail being unsure of how far it was..I finally reached the pond,I was so fuckin re leaved to see that water,You could go either way around the pond,so I went to refer to my book,it was not in my bag.so I stopped went take my tank top off and the strap broke on that,had to put it back on and tie it.I decided what I thought was the shortest route around the pond,along the way ran into some people swimming,and asked them if I was heading rite,oh yup they said just follow it around and keep on going.Reaching the other side of the pond where the trail was suppose to be there where several dif. ones to take.I asked a few more peeps,and they said yup go here,start down trail find signs saying where they go,,not where I needed to go,back and forth a few times,thank god found the rite trail,back out to the road and a parking lot,but not the one I started from,figured out where I must have been,headed down the road,,TG found my car,,and my trail book,on top of it..I humped 7 miles in 3 and half hours and could not wait for it to be over. that's my story

i pulled a couple of grouse out of the wifes grill once, now those stank.....