How to Find Your way in a Deep Forest

While it's great to enjoy the great outdoors and the woods, it's very easy to make a wrong turn which could lead to you getting lost in a deep forest. A few skills can help you out significantly. If you're prepared, then you can find your way out of a deep forest. The following tips and steps will help.

Instructions

• 1

  Get the right mindset. If you're lost in a deep forest, then you may start to feel frantic because you think that you need to somehow find your way to the location where you entered the forest. It's not necessary to find your way back to where you started, you simply need to find other people who in turn can help you find your way in a deep forest. Try your best to remain calm.

• 2

  Clearly mark the location where you discovered you were lost. This way if you're walking around, you'll be able to tell if you're covering the same ground over and over again. In the deep forest, everything tends to look the same, especially if you're already worried and possibly a little scared.

• 3

  Use a make-shift compass to help you maintain your direction. If you're wearing a wristwatch with a regular watch face, not digital, you can hold a stick over the hour hand and examine where the shadow falls, Regardless of the day, north will be halfway where the stick shadow is cast and the 12.

• 4

  Follow water. Creeks and rivers usually reach towns and cities, in most cases.

• 5

  Stay put if it's dark or you're hurt. If you're lost, then it's likely that someone will be missing you and it can sometimes make it easier to find you if you stay in one spot.