Fourtunately, I can say that I've never been lost, in the bush, overnight.
But I can certainly relate to how that family could get "dry gulched" by them blasted Coast Range roads in a snow storm. Those hills are just a can of worms of narrow, paved roads constantly forking into each other.
There is a sign on a fork in the road about one in 20 forks. But they are real good to set out a sign that reads "Narrow winding road - next 2 1/2 miles" They set these out every 2 1/2 miles....for miles and miles on end.
The timber blocks any larger view, you may hope for, to see where you're going.
The maze of road forks makes it impossible to back track. The maze makes it about impossible to get where you're going unless you already know the road. Throw in the blizzard conditions.....yeah....you can be lost, clueless and in a very bad way.
An ascendant man, living in a degenerate age, MUST, by definition, live in contradistinction to his times.
