exeexe Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 So i was going good on my 18th day. I had spend 99% of my time in pleasant Valley but was unable to find a hatchet. I had everything i need except for a hatched and a bear roll. I had plenty of food. I was bunkering it down at pleasant valley farmstead. So i had seen on a map something called Derelict cabins. I thought i could go there and look for a hatchet. Shouldnt take too long so i only took with me 3kg of food. (3 items of meat). Left the house with 40% fattigue. Big mistake it should turn out to be. On my way i searched the Lonely cabins but didnt find anything of real value. Only found some cooked rabbit meat. Everything was running smooth but crossing the river i was entering an area i was not famliar with. So i had great trouble finding the 2 cabins. I came to a waterfall and realised i was way out of course.Then suddenly visibility dropped out of nowhere. Windspeed picked up. Oh nooo, now i cant find the cabins. So i had to find a good cliff and hunker down till storm was over.I found a good place with a 90 degree bent so i would be protected from 2 sides versus the wind. I harvested some wood and put down a fire. I took a nap because i was getting tired. When i wake up the wind had changed direction so i had to walk around the cliff and reposition my camp. I harvested wood without a hatched remind you, and it took a huge effort and my fattigue was going up and up. I put down a new fire. This time it looked like the fire was protected from a 90 degree angle but i wasnt sure. I went to sleep again just 1 hour, but just before the screen faded into black the wind was changing direction again. But luckily the angle was just out of reach of the fire. Now nighttime came and i was going into my reserves. Food was running dry. Couldnt get much sleep. it was fog nighttime and a storm. The classic scenario to call for emergency however today there would be no emergency to come and look for me. So my condition just got worse and worse. Then while i was taking a nap out in the open a wolf attacked me. It must had been real hungry since it ignored the fire. I managed to fight it off me but it left me with ~40% condition. He ran away bleeding. I had good medic kit on me so i quickly patched myself up but what do i do now?I tried going through the night and stay point, but with 6-8 hour left of darkness i came to the realization that it would probably not going to work. It came down to something like 4 hours of darkness left with 34-35% condition i decided to head out into the darkness. I lighted up my torch using my fire and started heading out. Didnt get far away maybe 5 steps. Then a wolf made out a frightening sound. I panicked and ran back to safety behind my fire. But from my previous experience i wasnt sure if the wolf would attack me. But now i had a lighted touch in my hand. So i threw it down on the ground on the area where the fire didnt protect me and now i was 100% sure i was protected. The wolf came to a standstill as it got scared and i could securely shoot it in the head. Now, i was starving at this point but now i had access to raw wolf meat. Things suddenly didnt look so grim. I head out of my comfort zone, didnt had any other options and secured 2 kg of meat. Went back to my fire and cooked one, then ate it. Then cooked the other and then i ate that too. Then i went back to the wolf and got the rest of the meat and the skin. Not that i needed the skin but it was nice to have. Then the storm calmed down and night changed to day. When i had done the wolf, right when i had finished it, a mofo of a black bear came around the corner. I thought this is it. Im done. But quickly i regained control of myself and fled back to the safety of my fire. The bear couldnt get closer to me and as it stood still i was able to shoot it 3 times in the head and it fell to the ground. So now i had all this meat but i thought i couldnt take it due to the seriousness of the situation. So i just took the skin and 4 guts. After this i found the Derelict Cabins and realised this was close to the place i had started and i had searched this place before. Now the mission was to get back to the pleasant valley farmstead. I didnt have much sleep and i was exhausted. So i couldnt move fast plus i was encumbered. So I took a big gamble and just slept for 2 hours right there in the snow without a fire. It was game changing. Now i could move around in a good pace, but right then as i got up a storm came in. Visibility dropped. Crossed the river. Couldnt do much. Just struggling to get to the barn. Was afraid i might would lose it and overshoot it. Wasnt sure of my position.But then i came to a road that ran perpendicular to my direction. I decided to turn left in hope the road would lead me to the barn. The road then went downhill quite a lot. I couldnt understand it. This area isnt supposed to have hills. Am i lost?But right then the barn popped up out of the fog and i was saved. I went inside. Was exhausted again. I had a lot of coffee, so i made a fire out of the collected reclaimed wood in the firebarrel. This saved me. But now darkness fell again. I slept maybe 1 or 2 hours. Then I decided i could do it. I could run from here to the pleasant valley farmstead in the middle of the night. Just one problem, one wolf attack and i would be dead. But then i reminded myself that i had a flare on me so i should be alright. I made it back to pleasant valley farmstead and i went right to bed. But i was so exhausted that i didnt got up after some 14 hours. What a search. Didnt got what i was looking for but instead i did find a good bear skin and a wolf skin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethany Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Thanks for sharing! Good story. I've definitely had many times where I was not too far from a house/hut when I suddenly found myself lost in a blizzard. The worst for me is being lost on any of the lakes. I know there are so many fishing huts around, but I can never seem to get close to one...So much relief when one finally appears! Good save/thinking with the cliff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exeexe Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 The day after i went back to where i had made my stand- this is how it looked like in broad daylighthttp://i62.tinypic.com/2h72c2e.pngOn the sea u can follow the white surface, it usually leads to something good.- Also i had to go to day 27 before i found a hatchet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotzn Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Good story. Moar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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