Timeline for I am lost, I found a trail, which way do I go?
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| Nov 6, 2018 at 4:55 | comment | added | 200_success | "Stay with the plane" may actually be the best advice. People are likely to be searching for the wreckage, and the wreckage is much easier to spot from the air than a person. Also, the wreckage may provide some shelter, which will increase your chance of survival if the weather is inhospitable. | |
| Nov 5, 2018 at 22:26 | comment | added | Joshua | @Mark: I fail to see how in any of those you would be so far lost as to not know which direction civilization already is. In which case you could skip immediately to take the trail direction heading towards civilization. | |
| Nov 5, 2018 at 22:20 | comment | added | Mark | Applying "climb a mountain and head towards civilization" to the places I hike is generally counterproductive. Mt. Kit Carson: head ten miles west rather than one mile east to the trailhead. Horse Mountain: head seven miles east rather than a half-mile west to the Quartz Mountain lookout. Stevens Peak: you're likely to end up going south because the freeway, two towns, and a ski resort, all within five miles to the north, are hidden behind a spur of the mountain, and the north face has cliffs where the south face has a gentle slope (correct answer: take the trail west, it loops north). | |
| Nov 5, 2018 at 19:37 | history | answered | Joshua | CC BY-SA 4.0 |