Starting 2020 off right! 😜🤦🏻‍♂️ This morning I decided we should go for a hike and I've been wanting to check out Portola Redwoods (for the hiking) for a while so we packed a lunch and headed down. Who knew we almost got lost in the woods. Always remember to bring your trail map, kiddies! We missed our turn and got way off track. I was pretty sure we should’ve been back to the trail head already and we were headed the wrong way. I just had no idea how far off we went. The positive was the trail we ended up on was very scenic. When we finally got cell signal to figure out where we were, there was less than an hour before sunset and we had hiked about two hours off course. The thing that made us turn around - we climbed enough to hit fog and we knew we were too high. :) Going off course, we tacked on about 7 extra miles to our hike, basically doubling it. We hoofed back the way we came and rather than completely retrace our steps, we took the trail we originally missed. It was unfamiliar to us and probably not the best decision given how dark it was getting but it looked like it was the shorter way (it ended up being 0.12 mi. shorter). We managed to stay on the trail, although it was hard to tell at times, and got back in about an hour and a half - about half an hour after sunset. 😬 I pushed Peter pretty hard on the way back. I wanted to make sure we did as much of the trail as we could before it got dark - we didn't have flashlights, just our phones. I think we're both going to be a little shredded.