My wife and I went hiking with our dog there one day some months back and had a lot of fun despite getting lost in the forest. Near the end of the walk it was a major struggle to find our car again. But you know how things go sometimes - you just have to roll with the punches; make due with what you got; or some other cliché that actually works in this case.
We didn't have a phone data plan for the US at the time because our visit was only for a few days and it didn't warrant spending the extra money one. Before the hike we had to download the maps we needed and we couldn't check our GPS location once we left the cottage we were staying at.
The path we took for the hike did a large circle and crossed the road in two different spots along the way. The map we were using was very basic too and we got a bit discombobulated on where we were at times. When we hit the road the second time we decided to take it back to the car and didn't realize that what we were actually supposed to cross the road and find the path on the other side and continue in the woods until it looped back around in a full circle.
This actually happened to someone else as well, a woman we ran into that was hiking alone with her dog. She got picked up by her group in a car pretty early on though and we kept walking down the same road thinking that we were going to run into our car pretty soon.
The problem was that there were other roads and intersections in the forest that crossed over ours, and we started making wrong turns along the way without realizing it.
Eventually we sorted it out by turning on our data and just paying the $14 daily rate to be able to open the map again and problem solve our location. We found that we had to turn back around and go back to where we came from, a move that luckily only wasted about 15 minutes of our time.
The hike was pretty cool though with a few neat spots to see along the way.
There were some rocky cliffs and some large rock formations that made things a little more interesting than just the usual tree covered paths.
We only ran into a few other hikers so we let the dog walk off leash for the majority of the hike.
I liked these spiky green plants on the ground. I don't know what they are called but they looked like little evergreen trees that were only a few centimeters tall.
I also saw a millipede walking along a rock and that was the first time I'd ever seen one in the wild before.
That was the only hike that we've done this year so far and all and all it was pretty good, even despite getting lost.
