What Should I Do If I Get Lost During A Hiking Trip?

What should I do if I get lost during a hiking trip? Tips for actions to take if you are lost while hiking. Sit tight. If you filed your itinerary, somebody is going to go looking for you when you don't...

Sit tight. If you filed your itinerary, somebody is going to go looking for you when you don't show up when you said you were. So, sit tight. The search and rescue party will know that when you are lost, you will move downhill and to the right if you are right-handed and downhill and to the left if you're left-handed. After they check your travel route, where you said you're going to be, they will start looking and find out a little bit of information about how you move through the country. They will start looking for you based on that. So, sit tight. When you are lost you have to admit it to yourself and stop thinking that you're going to find your way out of it and when help is going to start looking for you and that is because you filed an itinerary. Eventually somebody is going to see you across the trail head; they are going to wonder about it. That will probably be the local ranger. They are going to say we need to start looking; at the very least, by Monday morning, when you haven't turn up for work.

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