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What to do if you are lost
The worst possible thing you can do is to travel in darkness, wander out of the sensible search area, or cross natural barriers such as rivers or passes where searchers will expect you to stop.
Searchers look for clues, not persons, so leave plenty. Deliberate footprints showing your direction of travel, bits of surveyors tape, arrows and your initials scratched into the dirt or made by lining up pebbles on larger rocks, bundles of grass bent over in your direction of travel and wrapped with more grass, or even written notes are all excellent ways to lead searchers in your direction.
Read more about this and other excellent navigation tips in the book, The Mountaineering Handbook by Craig Connally, for sale at the Mazama Mountaineering Center.
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