After spending five days with your family in the mountains, you feel confident enough to take a short day hike by yourself.  You tell your family where you are going and approximately when you’ll be back.  After packing a small backpack, you wave goodbye and head into the trees.

Here is what you have with you:

·         Snacks

·         A rain poncho

·         A small bit of rope

·         A mirror

·         Insect repellant

·         Water

Your hike takes you up a small ravine with a creek running through it.  You continue up the ravine until you top out on a small ridge.  From the ridge, you can see your destination, the top of Mt. Bishop, about a mile off.  After catching your breath and enjoying the scenery for a few minutes you head off up the ridge.  As you climb higher, however, the trees seem to close in around you.  Soon you find yourself in forest so dense, you rarely catch glimpses of the sky and you can no longer see the mountaintop you are headed for.

You decide that it would probably be quicker to skirt around the edge of the forest instead of plowing straight through.  You wind around the mountain looking for a clearing in the woods through which you can continue your path.

After what seems like hours of looking for an opening, you give up.  It is getting to be late afternoon and if you want to get back before dark, you had better turn back now.  You decide that you can come back another day to climb this peak.  Back down the mountain you head, keeping your eye open for the ravine you came up.

You find a ravine that looks exactly like the one you came up and begin hiking down it.  You should be home within an hour, which is a good thing since there is only about an hour of daylight left.

As you progress down the ravine, however, things seem strange.  Nothing looks familiar.  Then you notice something that catches your breath in your throat: the ravine that you have been walking down for over an hour doesn't have a creek in it!  A feeling of panic starts to well up within you.  How could you have been so stupid?

You fight the urge to panic and try to calm yourself down.  You know, however, that you will never find your way out of these woods in the dark.

You'll spend the night alone, with only your wits to depend on.

You’re LOST and it will be totally dark in fifteen minutes.

What are you going to do?

How are you going to survive?

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