FWIW, way back in the 1970s, one of my cousins went for a solo hike on the Olympic Peninsula. He was an Eagle Scout, so knew a thing or two about life in the wild. Still, he got lost, but managed to eventually get found. One of the rangers he encountered after this ordeal told him that many people walk into the forest on the Olympic Peninsula every year, and are never seen again.
Western Washington Forests
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