I went to the Rugby League cup final & met a mate outside who had gone down with his college, they were all at a pub nearby but he had to ask two policemen the way before we found the pub which was only five mins away! ps know Hardwick Hall area well & my niece used to work at the pub.

The Leeds one way system is a nightmare too, going round & round trying to find the car park for the Marriott Hotel! Using orange maps on my phone just helped us find the hotel.

did you slide on your roll top wellies to gather an arm full of wood?<img src='theme/emoticon_smile.png' />

Love that tale Hamish bunny!!!

The big question is whether they escaped the mad woman's clutches the next day!!<img src='theme/emoticon_tongue.png' /> Great tale Mrs McBun <img src='theme/emoticon_grin.png' />

Oooooh, the other side of the sweet McBunnie cottage in the wild welsh borders. <img src='theme/emoticon_confused.png' /><img src='theme/emoticon_confused.png' /><img src='theme/emoticon_confused.png' />

Yes, got a shovel in the car and was going to keep it there until I get back from the Brecons. If I do get back that is.......you're going, aren't you?<img src='theme/emoticon_confused.png' /><img src='theme/emoticon_confused.png' />

Well then I'll look forward to seeing you again on Friday Mrs McBun and I'll have to watch my back. Do you have an ice axe on your sledge?<img src='theme/emoticon_confused.png' /><img src='theme/emoticon_confused.png' />

Perhaps bizarrely I quite enjoy the feeling of being lost although it's never happened to me deliberately and it doesn't happen very often. But there's one place where I always get lost every time I go there - Hutton Roof Crags near Burton-in-Kendal. It's a very jagged limestone pavement with a lot of impenetrable vegetation and the paths in the clints and grykes are like a giant maze. Try it and you'll see what I mean. (My IPad thinks clints and grykes ought to be clients and Greeks) <img src='theme/emoticon_smile.png' />

Yes Whitbarrow Scar caught me out also a few years ago,came down 3 hous later with head tourch<img src='theme/emoticon_smile.png' />

Also did a mountain bike ride a couple of years ago with a friend on Howden moor.The man at the YH sent us completely the wrong way,ended up carrying the bikes literally up a bloody series of cliffs....took about 10 hrs....never been so tired. Good memories!!

I missed a sign on the Teesdale Way & entered a wood which got increasingly dense as the cliffs on one side & the river the other squeezed me in & the terrain got more difficult. The poles sticking out of my bag must have got snagged on branches as I struggled through climbing over rocks & fallen trees.As I finally made it out of the woods my poles were missing & there was no way I was going back in there without an axe for revenge one day!

Getting lost in the dark - on my list of things to do, bring it on ha!!! <img src='theme/emoticon_smile.png' />

I grew up with electric fences, always be careful how you stride over them,my grandad used to grab our hand & then the fence so it just passed through him & we got a shock <img src='theme/emoticon_confused.png' />

Leaving Wasdale late one Feb afternoon, already dark and just wanted to get to the motorway. Typed in Kendal and made the mistake of ok'ing 'shortest route' on the Sat Nav. The Hardknot pass, on my own, in the dark, road covered in icy patches and an estate car that refused to go around the hairpins in one go wasn't my idea of a relaxing end to the day. Reversing towards blackness to try and negotiate the bends isn't something I want to repeat<img src='theme/emoticon_unhappy.png' /><img src='theme/emoticon_unhappy.png' />

I'm surprised some of you blokes haven't ended up in the wardrobe after a nighttime expedition.<img src='theme/emoticon_grin.png' />

A mate of mine ended up lost trying to find the toilets at the Cockermouth YHA (an old water mill, pitch Black inside) in the end he desperately opened a window and p....d out onto the Water Wheel!! <img src='theme/emoticon_grin.png' />

Would that be to get away from snoring women Mag?....It isn't just blokes either, I know of women who've turned the wardrobe into a birdbath after a long night on the lash.....I'm sure all us blokes are a lot more refined than that <img src='theme/emoticon_tongue.png' /><img src='theme/emoticon_tongue.png' /><img src='theme/emoticon_tongue.png' />

No, it's cos they're searching for the blow up doll ha ha. (or the repair kit).

I'm keeping very quiet on this topic !!

Walkey talkey....you could adapt that to walking & tell the kids its much more fun exploring!

Good thread u started here Ally. Well 2 stories to share. Dropped my wife off at a friends on Canvey Island in Essex, got lost and cldn't get off the Island! Story no' 2, the area that I grew up in, went for a bike ride when I was about 16, about 2 miles from home, was lost!, note of caution, I've put invites up on this site before lol

Cheers.Some of the forums are getting a bit boring.Lets get something funny/interesting on.

Getting lost<img src='theme/emoticon_unhappy.png' /> every time I go out. Barmouth walk, Roman Rd, Yorkshire Moors, bike riding, Dovestones (every time I go there). In fact I get lost leaving my front door. Needless to say everyone who knows me will one day stop listening to me when I say it's this way. <img src='theme/emoticon_grin.png' /><img src='theme/emoticon_grin.png' />

Did we ever find the Northern Quarter Jo or was it just a random pup crawl?<img src='theme/emoticon_smile.png' />

When I was small I lost my mum in Boots shop on Christmas Eve because it was so crowded & I couldnt see over the people! <img src='theme/emoticon_unhappy.png' />

I think you mean you couldn't see over the apothecary jars, in those days there weren't that many people<img src='theme/emoticon_smile.png' />

It was packed on that day & it was a small shop! <img src='theme/emoticon_smile.png' />