Thread: Lost in the bush

Post from @Strummer
Nothing too bad/exciting...was hunting solo in a remote spot on Stewart Island/Rakiura. It can get very tight bush in places, and creeks don't always run to the sea. I was trying to head back to the hut. I'd been walking for a bit (I'd been distracted by watching a kiwi playing around by my feet) when I thought "hmmm, I'm not sure where the coastline is any more, and I have no bearings". The forest was very thick with a closed canopy and I couldn't get any GPS signal through it. It was cloudy and I couldn't see the sun through the trees either. My pulse started quickening as I realised I was bushed. I sat down, took a breather and tried to keep calm. My watch has a compass so I slowly used that, with the topomap on my phone, to figure out roughly where I was. Turns out I had been going in totally the wrong direction for the past half hour. It wouldn't have been a total disaster, as I was on a peninsula and would've found the coast eventually, but it was enough of a fright to focus the senses!

Was at piropiro flats a few weeks back with a school .group. there was also a Hamilton nzda hunt on. One of the guys was hunting off the timber trail . At one point he saw something standing out in the bush. It turned out to be a lady cyclist standing there with a roll of toilet paper in her hand. She had gone off for a dump and couldn't find her way back to the track. Lucky he turned up

Haha classic, I’m sure I read on here someone got lost taking a dump in the middle of the night one time, can’t remember who it was though! @Chur Bay