Never Truly Lost: Some Reflective Writing

[whynotwalk]

Some open south-west scrub

G'day all - my latest blog post looks into the not-so-gentle art of getting lost. Part 1 here http://auntyscuttle.blogspot.com/ looks at the darker side, but later I'll look into some of the joys of going off track,

cheers

Peter

[ILUVSWTAS]

Great story Peter, I know exactly what your talking about.

[ollster]

Heh, yes I can relate too. You still need to use your noggin even with a GPS or even a map. Heading straight into that river gully may seem like the quickest way on paper...

Forum member Scrubmaster has a Delorme GPS with vegetation maps on it that are actually fairly accurate. I recall him counting down the metres when I was trying to pull down a 4m high wall of bauera that went for about 30m IIRC. The Delorme was correct almost the to metre... as I tumbled off the 1.5m tall bauera I was pressing down with my chest, onto the buttongrass, he was reading off "1 metre". It didn't make it much easier, but it's good to have goals.

[flyfisher]

And even the fisherman can have a problem with it.
On a trip down the Weld river many years back, a mate and I fished upstream for a couple of k's one hot feb day.
After coming to a long unwadeable pool we decided that as the Weld Eddy track was only a few hundred meters away we would take a short cut up to it and then stroll back to the vehicle.
In chest waders in february mid afternoon heat we battled through eucalipts with many downed logs and the whole lot tied together with vines that resisted most attempts at passage. By the time we got to the track we were saturated with sweat and I remember carrying the waders etc and walking back in jocks and sox.
It's hard to imagine how scrub can impede your progress to such an extent but.....
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