Where could a guy get really lost?

[Ouch]

Like others have said, I think you’d be hard-pressed to pull it off in Texas. That said, funny story…

Several years ago, a couple buddies went to help Joe (name changed to protect the guilty, also a friend of ours) hang a stand on public land in an area he claimed was “yet to be seen” by any other hunters. After trekking for close to two hours (being demonstrably led by Joe en route to the aforementioned secret spot), they came across the locale… a feeder tree with cover, converging game trails, close water, etc. It was, decidedly, a fair-to-middlin’ hunting ground.

Once all of the pre-hanging prep work was completed, Joe donned his climbing harness, shimmied up the strap-on ladder, lock-on stand in tow. When his ascension was complete, he manipulated the stand to the desired spot and threw the strap around the hefty oak’s trunk. In his efforts to secure the tag end of the strap, he was left peering around the back side when, suddenly – and much to his chagrin – he saw it.

There, before him, some 70 yards away… his truck, where he had left it, at the turnaround parking area near the entrance to the WMA.

[mjbtexas]

my brother could get lost in dallas for 3 months You have to drop him at the stand and point to the door or ladder.

but love him to death!

I do think it's feasible with injury or unprepared to get lost that long in West Texas. I think. I think people would have to NOT be looking for you...

[Shane]

Chapter 2: I broke my leg

....next to a stream full of fish.

Chapter 3: Just as my leg was about to heal, I broke my other leg.

[TUCO]

Where could a guy get really lost?

Where in North America could a person be lost for 3 months or more and not come across roads, towns, traffic, etc.?

The largest swamp in the United States

The Atchafalaya Basin

You would be lucky if you survived a few weeks, much less a few months.

If you get lost in the middle of that swamp, you probably won't be seen again; not by humans anyway.

[TUCO]

Chapter 2: I broke my leg

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVmeeYwEiQw"]Quint's Song - Farewell and adieu. - YouTube[/ame]

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Chapter 2: I broke my leg

You're bear scat.

the end

[TxDispatcher]

Like others have said, I think you’d be hard-pressed to pull it off in Texas. That said, funny story…

Several years ago, a couple buddies went to help Joe (name changed to protect the guilty, also a friend of ours) hang a stand on public land in an area he claimed was “yet to be seen” by any other hunters. After trekking for close to two hours (being demonstrably led by Joe en route to the aforementioned secret spot), they came across the locale… a feeder tree with cover, converging game trails, close water, etc. It was, decidedly, a fair-to-middlin’ hunting ground.

Once all of the pre-hanging prep work was completed, Joe donned his climbing harness, shimmied up the strap-on ladder, lock-on stand in tow. When his ascension was complete, he manipulated the stand to the desired spot and threw the strap around the hefty oak’s trunk. In his efforts to secure the tag end of the strap, he was left peering around the back side when, suddenly – and much to his chagrin – he saw it.

There, before him, some 70 yards away… his truck, where he had left it, at the turnaround parking area near the entrance to the WMA.

That is toooo funny!

[175gr7.62]

I would say nowhere in Texas could you get lost that long. If you could walk in a relative straight line and make even a piddly 5 miles/day that's 450 miles. You'd be hard pressed to drawing a straight line anywhere in North American 450 miles long and not cross a major road unless you were way way up north near the arctic circle.

[MadHatter]

No where in the lower 48 except maybe the bitterroots between Idaho & Wyoming. I have hunted in just about every western state, and logged 100's of miles over the years, packing in. If you have a sense a direction and a compass, it's kinda hard to get lost. Even still, the odds you could spend 3 months and come across nothing, are so high it makes the lottery look good. Get on a map and try and find some woods, anywhere in the lower 48, where you can't cut a road 30 miles in any direction. It's almost impossible. Colorado is a joke there are so many roads. Also you did say a hunter/outdoorsman, so I assume this person knows the woods and wouldn't venture out without supplies. If your talking about someone who is green, they wouldn't last 3 weeks.

[VinnysquidTX]

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is one of my favorite books. Takes place in northern Canada so maybe up there.

[westtexducks]

For 3 months? Would have to be far northern canada or alaska. In lower 48 there isnt a patch of dirt big enough to be lost 3 months

[Dale Moser]

It's a much more short term lost, but I've never been more lost than on a big lake in the fog.....

[Deers & Beers]

I'd say Alaska, Idaho, possibly Nevada.. Maybe Big Bend? Possibly somewhere in the Dakotas?

[Casey]

Caught the first part of this story on North Woods Law. With a little research, I found the ending. Sad and a bit wild to think about. Appalachian Trail in Maine.

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/05/25/report-geraldine-largay-kept-journal-during-weeks-lost-in-maine-woods/

[GatorBait]

Got lost in the mountains in Wyoming for nearly a week. Went to sleep in the tent, when I woke up the next morning a bunch of snow had fallen. Nothing looked the same