[eno_]

People die on Mt. Washington, and it is a relatively small heavily travelled area with lots of paths - including the Appalachian Trail - all over the place. People have frozen to death a couple hundred yards from

On Hood, I remember thinking "damn, it would take me three days to bushwhack back to a road if I got lost back here."

[RockChucker]

I got lost in the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness area near Mt. Hood. I was on wee little used trail that started on the Estacada side. After hiking for a day, I basically was off the trial. After spending the day getting to the top of the 'hill' to take a look around and get my direction straight, all I could see was other 5000 ft 'hills' and clouds. No Mt. Hood for direction. I could just blase north to the highway, but that could take days, at the least, up and down these mountains.

Basically, went to the bottom and followed a creek to a larger creek to a river to the Salmon river, etc, etc. I figured I would eventually hit the Pacific Ocean (worst case). Needess to say, the next day I was at the Zig Zag party store eating a day old buritto and drinking Fosters from the can...