North Idaho Skinny: Bambi’s Safe … for Now

We spent a day and a half hunting in the Benewah County woods. I was decked out in blaze orange because, as the man said, it’s a war zone in the woods during hunting season. That’s how it sounded. Gunshots and four wheelers firing off all around us. I felt pretty safe, though. Until I got lost. He pointed out the stand of tamaracks from the road and I felt confident as he dropped me off a half mile from where he planned to hike into the forest. Hell, how hard could it be for an Idaho girl to get from Point A to Point B and rustle some deer out of the brush? Problem is, those brown-topped tamaracks look a whole different from the road than they did when I was standing beneath them. So different that I didn’t even recognize them and pretty much (OK, entirely) missed the tamaracks I was supposed to walk through. I knew I’d screwed up somewhere when I found myself back at the truck/ Taryn Hecker , The Skinny On North Idaho. Full column here.

Question: Have you ever been lost in the woods?