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Cross Country wrote:The first time I was hiking in a draw and it was drizzeling (no sun). I was trying to stay to the right of the draw because it was wet. We stayed to the right 180 degrees and walked back to the canyon overlook we had seen 30-40 minutes early. Once I saw the canyon I knew what had happened.
The second time we were hiking down the dry creekbed from Avonelle Lake looking for the trail. It was rocky and formed an S there and ahead and when I saw the trail I turned left like I was supposed to but we had crossed the trail in the rocky section and the S curve slowly took as right. We hiked to the overlook of Jack Main Creek. Since we were hiking toward Hetch Hechy this was the wrong diredtion. It was June 21 and 1:00 and the sun didn't help with direction.
