One of those reminders to pay attention to where you're going.

[gogmorgo]

Yesterday I was tooling around on the forest service roads in south-eastern BC, when I saw this cool looking valley with some roads on the other side that I couldn't really see a clear way to get to from my side. It didn't seem like the roads were on the map I'd saved on my phone either, so I was figuring they were fairly new.

Then I came to a bit of a parking area, with a couple well-travelled wheel tracks running towards the edge of the valley. They went a couple hundred feet into a cutline, then they became much less well-travelled. I thought that was a little odd. Also thought it odd that I hadn't seen any signs or anything indicating buried gas or other sort of pipeline, transmission line, etc. 

Then a couple things clicked and I pulled out my phone to check gps. 

Sure enough, that cut line is the 49th parallel. I missed a fork on the map as I was following my route, and ended up much further south than I intended. The roads that weren't on my map weren't there because roads in Montana don't show up on BC maps.

As curious as I am about what might have happened if I kept following those tracks, I'm pretty happy I stopped where and when I did. 

[rylee144]

Been there myself but from the Washington State side. I hunt just south of the border by Northport WA. 

[NHMJXJ]

Not a problem in my little state.  While we do border Canada, it's unlikely you wouldn't know where you were.  Even without GPS.

[DesertRat1991]

2 hours ago, gogmorgo said:

As curious as I am about what might have happened if I kept following those tracks, I'm pretty happy I stopped where and when I did. 

 

As long as you don't shoot a moose, you should be fine.  These days we only dunk poachers and heretics...

 

 

[500 MJ]

Lol, Time to build a wall!!!

 

 

[neohic]

3 hours ago, 500 MJ said:

Lol, Time to build a wall!!!

 

 

 

You should be okay WAY down there in Wisconsin, Brent. Those dangerous Canadians have a lot of ground to cover before they’re knocking on your door. 

[gogmorgo]

4 hours ago, 500 MJ said:

Lol, Time to build a wall!!!

 

 

Or at least put up a sign or something. 

 

7 hours ago, NHMJXJ said:

Not a problem in my little state.  While we do border Canada, it's unlikely you wouldn't know where you were.  Even without GPS.

I knew I was close to the border, I was just about ten miles further south than I was expecting. It's pretty easy to miss a mile marker without realizing it when the road looks like this:

Although I didn't miss the road itself, I just hadn't been paying attention to how far down I'd gone and didn't think I'd made it there yet.