We had to get up real early in the morning because Custer was knocking at our cabin door, ready to go. So we began walking down the road until we came to a trail that went into the woods. To pass time on the walk Tim and I started noticing these old, dead trees, which we would then walk over to and try to knock them down. Since there were numerous dead trees, we began to not even pay attention to where we were going. The woods were so peaceful and beautiful that we kept walking deeper into the woods. We were all too busy admiring the forest to realize that the t

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It did not bother me that much at first because I figured that we were not far from the trail. We decided to turn around and find the trail. We began walking and walking with no sign of the trail. After we had been walking for over an hour I began to get a little worried. I asked Custer how far these woods went on and he said for hundreds of miles in pretty much every direction. When I heard that I then realized just how lost we were. Suddenly the woods turned into this death trap that we could not get out of. I began to look at the woods not as a beautiful forest but as a place that I would do anything to get out of.

As it turns out we were about twenty miles away from our cabin. If those men would not have been looking for bears that morning we may have never made it back to our cabin. When we got back I realized how lucky we were to have a bed to sleep on and food waiting on us in the kitchen. All the little things that I took for granted became luxuries that I was thankful to have.

Although being lost in the woods was one of the scariest moments in my life it showed me how quickly your life can change from one minute to the next.

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