"PENMART01" > wrote in message
...
>> "C. James Strutz"
>>
>>It's actually pretty hard
>>these days to find a place where you are truely lost to the point where
>>survivability is an issue.
>
> You're not an outdoorsman... only outdoors you've ever seen is in a
> Natural
> Geographic magazine.

Oh, I get outdoors a lot. I never get lost AND I never make stupid
assumptions about people I don't know.

> It's actually very easy to get lost in the woods, don't need any large
> wooded
> area either, people become disoriented in relatively small wooded areas
> all the
> time, even very experienced outdoors types. especially those because they
> think
> they know it all. And doesn't have to be any big wilderness area
> either...folks get lost in the Long Island, NY Pine Barrens all the time,
> often
> within a couple hundred yards of major populated areas and/or major
> roadways...
> quite a few are found years later, well, their bones.

Sorry, I don't buy it. There's no way anyone with reasonable intelligence
and awareness couldn't find their way "a couple hundred yards" away to some
kind of civilization. Anyone who can't follow the noise of traffic or the
lights of the city must be incapacitated somehow. MOST places are
sufficiently developed now that it's not hard to walk in a straight line and
run into something or someone.