Originally Posted by stapfam
Many moons ago I did an offroad ride that should have been 80 miles and taken 10 hours. Then it rained and a strong headwind came up so we revised the time to take an extra hour- Then my co-rider- that knew the route inside out admitted that he did not know where we were- out came the maps and without a street sign or village name (Not many of those in the middle of nowhere up on the hills) to get our bearings---we were lost. That 80 mile ride finished up being 115 miles took 15 hours and the last half hour were very difficult in the ever decreasing light- Got to the finish- just as we decided that it would be safer to walk than ride. By the way- it is worse when you are soaking wet, and due to slowing down in the bad light, you are shivering and just on the point of hypothermia.
Wow. Ouch.
That reminds me off when I took a wrong turn on an off road trail and could not figure out what happened. My friend looked at the map and could see some small details I could not see. Then I realized I have to have my glasses on to see things like a stream or a bridge, and other small things on the map.
Now my most imoprtant tool is my glasses.
And the time we split up to look for landmarks with aproaching darkness and he did not come back and we lost cell service. He started talking to someone.