Mark and I had the day free yesterday after noon. So we decided to go investigate some nearby hiking trails in the County Forestry area. There is a roadside area to park and some restrooms and then you can hike about 6-odd miles of trails.
There was a little hut that you pass through with maps on the walls. First off, they were very hard to read, and the trails definately did not match up to them in real life, the way that they were painted on the map! We found this out later.. So we figure, we are good-enough woodspeople.. we won't get lost..
About 2 hours later we realized that the forest was eating any delusions that we might have had about where we were. We did not go off the trail; but it was a "yellow trail" and, well, it branched off into weird sections that were NOT on the map in the trailhead!! Worse yet, there were no signs. We figured at first that we would just backtrack.. into it, we changed our mind to loop around.. but we seemed to be getting nowhere and it was getting later! Not one other soul was even around to ask for help and possibly get shot/killed/plundered by..
Three hours later we made it to our truck.. only to find this weird couple in a parked car partaking of illegal substances. Enough was enough.. we are sticking to our own neck of the woods from now on!