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    How many here are able to travel without getting lost the backwoods some forty miles in each direction from your home?


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    I've been on extended treks where we were out in the woods for a week and a couple of times for two weeks just trekking and making camp but we never really kept track of the distance. On the two weekers I know we did more than 40 miles and didn't get lost.
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    there are not many real woods within 40 miles of my current place. sort of 'front-woods' if anything...

    i'm usualy familiar with the relative positions and configuration of the major topography within at least that range for any area i live, so if i lost track of my position it wouldn't last long.
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    Cool Yeah, what he said!!!

    Same as Canid, everything around here is mostly fields for corn or Soy-beans with bits of woods thrown in for landscaping, or so it seems!
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    40 miles like the D-Boys last physical test, sounds toughf but then again they have 24 hours and you have a weak, but still 40 miles is 40 miles. if I took a 40 mile trip from my house to wherever all i would need is a Thomas Guide lol!jk I have a Carbon Canyon to get lost in.
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    Default i'll take that challange

    in the rangers we did many missions behind enemy lines deep in counrty to gather intel i can go hundreds of miles north east and west and be in the middle of no where 40 miles to the south will put me in the georgian bay

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    Hey, you been down one corn row you pretty much been down all of em.
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    Unfortunately even in the UP of Michigan, still considered to be "backwoods", you can't walk 5 miles in any direction from any point without running into a road, town, or lake superior. SO yes, I could walk 40 miles in any direction and just follow the road back
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