Hi LV101
He said you can always find your way -- really?!
We thought so too but we did get lost one time really bad.Let me tell you.
Once we were 7 of us (couples and singles, all with mobile phones).There was this particular couple who said we will hike 3 mountain (out of 7, 5 are average hikers mountains), in a week of holiday.
So here we were enjoyingthe hike up the mountain ,we were supposed to have reached the bottom like an hour before but we did not. Gps and all still going strong and we kept on .Until we realized that we are actually not reaching the other side . so tried to get back on track, locate where we are and all. suddenly our phones got no signal, no Gps all kaput.
Still not much bothered as we believed we will find our way to the other side of the mountain.Fat chance of that happening. we tried so many times by following beaten paths and all. Ultimately after 5 hours of messing around lost (somewhere during this time it started raining), we saw light far away. We all made a beeline for that light .Turns out it was a pub in a small village . when asked how to get to our mountain, he laughs his head off and says you are on the other side of the 2nd mountain( we were going to the first of the 7 mountains). how we got there dunno but we were all so so tired and wet to the bones, we decided to take a taxi to our hotel and spend the rest of the holiday just chilling and relaxing.
One of the couples was like our leader who had already done this hike before so we relied on him to help us as a guide to the 3 mountains a nd back. Guess who we made us pay for the expensive taxi ride back to the hotel. Yeah! Him.
Vowed never again to rely on others but have our basics covered for safety reasons. One lives and learns.
Peace